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scores=34 Votes. 8,8 of 10 stars. Michael Pack. Year=2020. country=USA. reviews=A controversial figure, loved by some, reviled by others, few know much more than a few headlines and the recollections of his contentious confirmation battle with Anita Hill. A story truly and fully, without cover-ups or distortions. He would not stand a chance today. The liberal fanatics would have burned him at the steak.

We're hiring! DIGITAL MEDIA COORDINATOR - Washington, D. C. The Claremont Institute seeks a Digital Media Coordinator to implement creative online marketing strategies through social media and other digital platforms. The position will be based in Claremont’s Washington, D. office and will report to the Vice President of Communications and the Director of Publications, both located in D. C.... Learn more about the position at the link below and please consider sharing! See More Washington D. C. · Full-time "If those in politics who care about the Republic truly want to save it, they need to start thinking harder about statecraft in a digital age and stop obsessing over shadowy conspiracies about who’s digitally manipulating who. " -Mark Hemingway Watch Josh Craddock, 2019 John Marshall Fellow, in LiveAction's latest video! "From that equality can grow a new political future not only for those freed from slavery but also for those who were formerly masters. It might take generations to create that mutual respect, in which we are a nation of equal individuals, not a nation of fixed tribes, incapable of change. Lincoln brought his audience—people who may have been morally vicious, indifferent or even fanatically against slavery—together on the side of the founders. We today are only human, but they were too. " - Ken Masugi, Claremont Senior Fellow The Fight Over the Meaning of Equality, TIME Check out the latest American Mind Podcast: Big Porn and Mini Mike | The Roundtable Episode 5 Our Editors talk about the future of eugenics, the battle of Bloomberg v. Bernie, and an exciting new economic initiative on the Right. Plus: are libertarians coming for your sexual dignity? Our editors talk porn. "The Hayekian enthusiasm for self-regulating forces and spontaneous adjustment, even stipulating their efficacy in a free market, does not translate to the modern international system. Perhaps it is a defense of Hayek to say that he was not contemplating how nations now behave. That would still leave his conclusions inapplicable. " - Oren Cass "Aristotle’s entire account of ethics is based on the fact that human beings have a nature that they can perfect or destroy with good habits or bad habits, virtues or vices. To offer for consideration an important implication, one that demands another article if not a book: modern science is siding with Aristotle on this as on a number of other points. Aided by his teaching and by a sober look at the true meaning of tolerance, we can and should reverse course. " -Dr. Benjamin Wiker "Small wonder that such an outlook has produced men who think sex is not a meeting of souls but a pressing of buttons. And yet it’s those men who must be led, not forced, to think of themselves as something more. To shun porn of their own free will. There are long years of difficult work ahead of us, and it is not only legislative work. In schools, in families, in public, we must be unashamed to teach—and to show—that man is more than dust. " -Spencer Klavan Read Helen Andrews' thoughtful review of Christopher Caldwell's new book, "The Age of Entitlement, " as it appears in the Winter 2019/20 Claremont Review of Books! "Despite the affordability of flatscreen televisions, which think tankers and their ilk seem to believe is a metric of American prosperity, there certainly seems to be a bankruptcy of imagination: one can defend sex in its most objectifying form, but not in the sacred form. " -Marlo Safi "Our problem is therefore a misplaced elevation of the notion of the “marketplace of ideas” to an undeservedly lofty pedestal—if not to the position of an outright societal panacea. In so doing, especially in the context of utterly noxious content such as pornography, we have sapped ourselves of the ability to advance forthright moral argumentation about the inherent value of ideas and content. Philosophical liberals of the both the left- and right-leaning variety have vitiated the 'marketplace of ideas' and neutered it into a marketplace of brain worms. " - Josh Hammer "Stop talking about public health consequences and start telling it like is: Porn is despicable; its supporters are perverts. So long as we tacitly assume that the harm principle marks the bright line beyond which we cannot legislate, we will be abetting the perverts in taking down the ship of state. Once we break their spell, and we start passing laws because they are good for morals, supportive of religion, and in accordance with the natural law, we will be well on our way to America’s re-founding. Perverts beware. " - Bedivere Bedrydant "The collapse of the family brought about by the sexual revolution has created an identity vacuum now filled by identity politics. " -David Azerrad The Winter 2020 Issue of the Claremont Review of Books is out! Subscribe today and read the latest articles and book reviews from Christopher Caldwell, David Azerrad, Helen Andrews, James Hankins, Spencer Klavan and more! Thanks to Julie Ponzi at American Greatness for a great write up about The American Story podcast. "There are two obstacles standing in the way of action on pornography today. The first is technological. Solutions exist for that one. The other is cultural, our willingness to try. We have been too blinded by patently false ideas that no one before the Sixties ever believed—that artistic expression justifies obscenity, that pornography’s effect on the soul is as reversible as a false argument’s effect on the brain—and it has made us reluctant. " - Helen Andrews New Feature up on The American Mind: Porn and the Laws of the Soul Helen Andrews reflects upon the drastic increase in availability and immediacy of pornography over the past several decades. Josh Hammer, Marlo Safi, Bedivere Bedryant, Benjamin Wiker, and Spencer Klavan respond. /porn-and-the-laws-of-the-soul/ Claremont Institute Nonprofit Organization "Maybe another way of framing Klavan’s question is this: what dreams of political order are we willing to sacrifice to build something that might inspire ordinary people to vote for our cause? If we don’t have an answer to that, we haven’t gotten serious about the task of building a new conservatism. " -Brian A. Smith.

His recent abortion dissent explains why Clarence Thomas is so cut off on the Supreme Court, even from his fellow-conservatives. PHOTOGRAPH BY DENNIS BRACK / BLOOMBERG VIA GETTY This year’s Supreme Court term abounded in so much drama—the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, the tie votes among the remaining Justices, the liberal victories in the final days—that it was possible to miss a curious subplot: the full flowering of Justice Clarence Thomas’s judicial eccentricity. Since his stormy confirmation, in 1991, Thomas has been the target of much unfair criticism. Some have argued, for example, that his years of silence during oral arguments meant he was not doing much work at all. In fact, Thomas is the most prolific opinion writer on the Court—and that is especially true this year. According to statistics compiled by Professor Steve Vladeck, of the University of Texas Law School, Thomas wrote opinions in thirty-eight of the sixty-two cases the Justices decided in the 2015-16 term. That’s twice as many as Justice Samuel Alito, a conservative, like Thomas, and the next-most active writer on the court. Likewise, Thomas’s critics have made the condescending charge that he was just a blind follower of Scalia, an idea that the results this year also rebut. The truth is that Thomas’s view of the Constitution is highly idiosyncratic. Indeed, one reason he wrote so many opinions (often solo dissents and concurrences) was that no other Justice, including Scalia, shared his views. Thomas is a great deal more conservative than his colleagues, and arguably the most conservative Justice to serve on the Supreme Court since the nineteen-thirties. While some Justices are famous for seeking consensus with their colleagues, Thomas seems to go out of his way to find reasons to disagree—often in the most provocative ways. Take, for example, his solo dissent this year in Foster v. Chatman, in which all the other Justices joined Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., ’s opinion setting aside a death-penalty verdict in Georgia. Roberts said that records preserved by the prosecutors in that case showed egregious racial discrimination in jury selection. Prosecutors said one juror “represents Black, ” another note said “No Black church, ” and other notes identified black jurors as “B#1, ” “B#2, ” and “B#3, ” as well as notes with “N” (for “no”) appearing next to the names of all black prospective jurors. “The contents of the prosecution’s file plainly belie the State’s claim that it exercised its strikes in a ‘color-blind’ manner, ” Roberts wrote for the Court, adding, “the focus on race in the prosecution’s file plainly demonstrates a concerted effort to keep black prospective jurors off the jury. ” Thomas, alone, was unpersuaded. The prosecutors’ notes, he wrote, provided “no excuse for the Court's reversal of the state court's credibility determinations. " (The case reflects a long pattern at the court of Thomas, the only black justice, voting against programs designed to assist African-Americans, and rejecting findings of discrimination against African-Americans. ) The Foster case turned primarily on the facts, but it’s on constitutional law that Thomas is most isolated. Far more than even Scalia did, Thomas endorses originalism—the belief that the Constitution should be interpreted as its words were understood at the time it was written. By a vote of 5–3, the Court struck down Texas’s restrictions on abortion clinics in Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt, but neither of the other dissenters (Roberts and Samuel Alito) joined Thomas’s opinion. What’s most extraordinary about Thomas’s dissenting opinion in the abortion case is not that he objects to the ruling; as he noted, “I remain fundamentally opposed to the Court’s abortion jurisprudence. ” But Thomas also took the opportunity to reject more than a century of the Court’s constitutional jurisprudence. He said that, since the Presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Court’s interpretation of the Constitution has become an “unworkable morass of special exceptions and arbitrary applications. ” The abortion dissent explains why Thomas is so cut off on the Court, even from his fellow-conservatives. He doesn’t respect the Court’s precedents. He is so convinced of the wisdom of his approach to the law that he rejects practically the whole canon of constitutional law. It’s an act of startling self-confidence, but a deeply isolating one as well. Even his ideological allies, who mostly come out the same way on cases, recognize that they must dwell within the world that their colleagues and predecessors created. Thomas, in contrast, has his own constitutional law, which he alone honors and applies. Thomas just turned sixty-eight years old, and reports of his impending retirement briefly surfaced before his wife shot them down as “bogus. ” Indeed, it is difficult to imagine that Thomas would allow any Democrat to choose his successor. Shortly after Scalia died, Thomas asked his first question in oral argument in more than a decade, but it’s highly unlikely that he will take on Scalia’s role as the pugnacious conservative in the Court’s public sessions. Rather, Thomas will continue his own way, increasingly alone, as the Court, for the first time in two generations, moves to the left. As for Thomas’s place on the Court, it’s difficult to improve on Scalia’s analysis, which I heard him give at a synagogue a decade ago. Scalia was asked about how his judicial philosophy differed from Thomas’s. “I’m an originalist, ” Scalia said, “but I’m not a nut. ”.

Justice Thomas has been my favorite Justice on the court for years. Why isnt there more awesomely empowering. Storytelling, hmmm!😱. Justice Thomas is a wonderful example of perseverance amidst slander and attempted character assassination. Zero evidence existed supporting his accusers defamatory claims. Persist and the truth does prevail. Justice Thomas is one of my heroes. When he was nominated, I was taken aback. He is the first Supreme Court Justice who is younger than me.

I really enjoyed this little seen movie. Interesting arguments.

My God what strength that man has, what an amazing soul

Did I just like a video uploaded by CNN. Ole Slo-Joe should've been the one being all of his then there was Fat Ted, the Coward-Killer of then Anita Hill who paved the road for Blasey Ford to put on her act! We never learn. I think they wanted to say she wasn't truthful in her statements and that is bad because they have mothers, sisters and girls children how bad is it on there part, shame one them. Michael Foust Contributor 2020 31 Jan COMMENTS Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas once went 10 years without asking a single question from the bench. He’s known as the “silent justice” — a man who would rather listen to the attorneys and read the briefs than speak out. That’s one reason that a new documentary — based on 30-plus hours of interviews with him — piqued the interest of those who have observed his life. Called Created Equal: Clarence Thomas In His Own Words (PG-13), the film tells the story of his life, from childhood until the present day, as narrated by Thomas himself. Here are four reasons you should watch it: Photo courtesy: ©Manifold Productions 1. It’s Filled with Faith Thomas was raised, in part, by his grandfather, who had a “philosophy of life” that “came from biblical sources, ” Thomas tells us. His grandfather was Catholic, and subsequently sent Thomas to Catholic school. In fact, Thomas nearly became a priest – even enrolling in seminary – but decided it wasn’t a good fit and also was repulsed by the racism of several classmates. (One passed him a note in class reading, “I like Martin Luther King … dead. ”) Still, Thomas was greatly shaped by his Catholic faith, which framed how he views life. He calls his wife a “gift from God. ” The Framers, he says, believed individual rights came from God. (More on that below. ) When he faced allegations of sexual harassment during his 1991 Senate hearing – allegations he denied and said were part of a “high-tech lynching” – he relied on his faith for strength. He, his wife, and a few friends studied Ephesians 6:10-18 and the Apostle Paul’s admonition to put on the armor of God. (His wife, Virginia, says “it felt like the demons were loose” during the hearing. ) Before Thomas went before the Senate committee to comment on the allegations, Sen. John Danforth, a supporter, told him to “go in the name of the Holy Ghost. ” Photo courtesy: ©Manifold Productions 2. It Reveals his Judicial Philosophy Thomas’ view on law was shaped as a young attorney by his research into slavery and segregation – and how a country founded upon the principle of equality could permit them to exist. “The answer was that it couldn’t – not without being untrue to its own ideals. ” Looking for a set of laws that labeled slavery as wrong, Thomas embraced natural law – a principle he says is found in the Declaration of Independence’s statement that people “are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights. ” “The Framers understood natural law and natural rights a certain way, and it is an underpinning of our Declaration, which then becomes a foundation for the Constitution, ” he says. “They start with the rights of the individual, and where do those rights come from? They come from God. They’re transcendent. ” When interpreting constitutional text, he says, “The goal is to discern the most likely public understanding of a particular provision at the time it was adopted. ” “A bad policy can be constitutional, ” he says. “A good policy can be unconstitutional. So that's why we start with the text. ” Photo courtesy: ©Manifold Productions 3. It’s Full of Surprises Thomas lived the first few years of his life in poverty in the segregated city of Savannah, Ga. His few possessions, he says, could fit in a paper grocery bag. When he moved in with his grandparents – who lived in a modest, middle-class home – he thought he had moved into a palace. It had plumbing. “We’d never been in a house with a bathtub. ” For much of Thomas’ young adult years, he considered himself “radical to left” in his political philosophy, looking up to the radical young leaders at the time. At Holy Cross, he wore Army fatigues. He took part in a violent college protest. He graduated from Yale Law School as a registered Democrat, but his only job offer was from a Republican: Missouri Attorney General John Danforth. “The idea of working for a Republican was repulsive at best, ” he says. “... I was left wing. ” His philosophy on life, though, began to change. Photo courtesy: ©Manifold Productions 4. It’s the Outspoken Thoughts of a ‘Quiet’ Man Thomas is famously known for not asking questions from the bench. The questions, he says, are pointless: “It's not my job to argue with lawyers. It's their job to make their cases. ” But in Created Equal, Thomas is (mostly) the only voice heard. If not speaking directly into the camera, he’s narrating photos. The documentary is based on more than 30 hours of interviews, and the on-screen footage is fascinating. Much of his life story – overcoming poverty, for example – can be embraced by both sides of the aisle. But some of what he says will trouble those on the Left. He labels race-centric criticism of him “stereotypes draped in sanctimony and self-congratulation. ” “If you criticize a black person who is more liberal, then you’re racist, ” he says, “whereas you can do whatever to me, or to now Ben Carson, and that's fine, because, ‘You're not really black because you're not doing what we expect black people to do. ’” We live in an echo-chamber age where people only watch movies and shows that mirror their beliefs. Perhaps we would be better off as a society if we watched things we don’t expect to like – and, therefore, gain a deeper understanding of other viewpoints. Only then can we possibly find common ground. I learned from and enjoyed On the Basis of Sex and RBG – two films about liberal justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg – and I did the same with Created Equal. Created Equal won’t make everyone happy, but it’s excellent, well-made and worth watching. Rated PG-13 for thematic elements including some sexual references. Content warnings: The film replays a few minutes of the sexually explicit Senate testimony from 1991. It involves discussion of a rape case. Elsewhere, language includes d--n (4), Misuse of “God” (3), SOB (1). Much of the language involves Thomas quoting other people. Learn more: Entertainment rating: 4 out of 5 stars. Family-friendly rating: 3 out of 5 stars. Photo courtesy: ©Manifold Productions.

Film Review: �Created Equal: Clarence Thomas In His Own Words� Skip to comments. ^ | 11/16/2019 | Sarah Lee Posted on 11/16/2019 9:16:13 AM PST by rktman There’s a moment in the new Clarence Thomas documentary, “Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words, ” following the harrowing confirmation hearing that saw the gentle man, loving husband, and legal genius from Pin Point, Ga., accused of sexual harassment and smeared as a lecherous monster, that sticks with you long after the 2-hour film ends. It’s the look Thomas has on his face at his swearing-in ceremony. He’s not elated by the prospect of joining the Supreme Court. He looks tired and maybe more than a little concerned for his safety. And it’s an indictment of the people — one of the most prominent in the person of then-Senator Joe Biden who came across as something of a grand inquisitor — who put Thomas through what he called at the time a “high-tech lynching for uppity blacks. ” (Excerpt) Read more at... TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; Philosophy KEYWORDS: createdequal; documentary; honorable; justicethomas; scotus So, does the AA community consider him a sell out? Pretty sad the way conservative African Americans are vilified by the left constantly. Basically, if you don't fall in line, you're scum. Read Justice Thomas' book 'My Grandfathers Son' years ago. Good read. At least for me it was. As for the hateful demo-commies, screw them. 1 posted on 11/16/2019 9:16:13 AM PST by rktman To: rktman The great Clarence Thomas, like so many cut from his cloth, are just not black enough for the race-baiting, poverty pimp pandering class. In their minds the world would be a much more hospitable place if he and his ilk would just kowtow to their single-minded dictates. 2 posted on 11/16/2019 9:40:12 AM PST by Spacetrucker (George Washington didn't use his freedom of speech to defeat the British - HE SHOT THEM.. WITH GUNS) I was unemployed during the hearings and had the time to watch nearly all of them. Like Andrew Breightbart, the Clarence Thomas lynching greatly informed my conservatism and was responsible for my belief that active democrats are evil. Even more so now. PBS huh? Might have to lower my standards to watch it. 3 posted on 11/16/2019 9:55:16 AM PST by cyclotic (Democrats must be politically eviscerated, disemboweled and demolished. ) To: cyclotic Not sure if I have access to it. 4 posted on 11/16/2019 9:58:22 AM PST ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH? ) To: Spacetrucker Black enough? The only thing Jug Ears did was tell em to kill whitey. Real helpful. 5 posted on 11/16/2019 9:58:23 AM PST by rawcatslyentist ("All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing") I wasn’t going to let what little my family and I had cobbled together to be so wantonly smashed. My enemies wanted nothing more than for me to go quietly. I, on the other hand, owed it to my family and the memory of my grandparents and forebears not to self-destruct but to confront them with the truth. Justice Thomas is a brilliant and courageous man - a far better civil servant than most of us deserve. 6 posted on 11/16/2019 10:15:48 AM PST by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual") Biden distinguished himself as an enemy of decency during the Thomas confirmation process. I geared up reading that book 8 posted on 11/16/2019 11:54:28 AM PST by personalaccts (Is George W going to protect the border? ) To: personalaccts 👍🎬 9 posted on 11/16/2019 12:14:48 PM PST I can’t say that I’ve read more than a few of Clarence Thomas’ dissenting opinons. But of those I’ve read, every one is a scholarly trip along the way of our Constitution and colonial history. May God Bless Clarence Thomas. May God damn to hell Leftist barbarians. 10 posted on 11/16/2019 1:38:20 PM PST by Jacquerie () To: Jacquerie Amen. Meeting Clarence Thomas is on my bucket list. Was going to be Antonin Scalia and him but that’s no longer an option. 11 posted on 11/16/2019 1:59:01 PM PST To: Fester Chugabrew “Biden distinguished himself as an enemy of decency during the Thomas confirmation process. ’ He sure did — his filthy mind showed itself. Kerry was a part of that. Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works. FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794 is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson.