Citizen Leadership

Chapman Center for Citizen Leadership

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Journalists Interviewing. Female Speaker Answering Questions
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Journalism, a Reckoning

You know journalism is flailing when Economist columnist James Bennet writes a piece that pretty much blew up his old home. The headline: "When the New York Times lost its way." Read More ›
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Arlington National Cemetery
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Who Would Destroy the Reconciliation Monument at This Time of Year?

t is a sad chapter in American history when the Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, takes naked action that is an affront to Congress and the separation of powers by running roughshod over Amendment 364 of the Fiscal Year 2024 Department of Defense Appropriations bill that prohibits the use of funds for the removal of any monument in Arlington National Cemetery.  Read More ›
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William McKinley Statue
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Removing Monuments Becoming Last Straw for Americans

It's a sign of our times that the most impressive and meaningful monument known as the Reconciliation Monument, located in Arlington Cemetery (in Arlington, Virginia): hallowed and sacred ground in America, has been scheduled to be removed on Dec. 18. Read More ›
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The Congress Center of Davos, Europe's highest city in the Swiss Alps
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The New World Order

While it is true that America’s light to the world has grown dim because of infiltration from without and corruption from within, the U.S. Constitution still stands. Read More ›
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American flags on tombs of American Veterans on Memorial Day, Zachary Taylor National Cemetery, Louisville, Kentucky (Blur Effect)On National Register of Historic Places
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Veterans Day Is A Call To Sacrifice, And Americans Who Love Liberty Must Answer

Veterans Day, which was originally founded around the virtue of the cessation of hostilities in World War I rather than the commemoration of any individual, should be a holiday beyond reproach.  Read More ›
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Strange and Maybe Wonderful Case of a New Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library

It is now newsworthy (in the New York Times) that North Dakotans are in the process of building a $333 million Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library. It is a private philanthropic venture not connected to the National Archives collection of presidential libraries that go back to the middle of the last century. Read More ›
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Harvard-Epworth United Methodist Church view in Cambridge Massachusetts, USA

Too Pure for Harvard?

The BDS -- or Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions -- movement began in 2005 as a progressive effort to defund and isolate Israel. The goal has been to pull money from Israeli institutions, isolate the Jewish State and stoke cowardice in corporate boardrooms. Read More ›
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USA flag on pole behind iron fence
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Beyond Orwell: The Players and Strategies of Today’s Censorship and Cancel Culture Part II

When crises come—whether a pandemic or war—most people become fixated on the immediate events and fail to connect the dots that provide a context for how those events may fit together in a deep state or globalist agenda. Read More ›
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American Flag At Sunset
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Beyond Orwell: The Players and Strategies of Today’s Censorship and Cancel Culture

Just a few generations ago, most Americans understood that George Orwell’s classics Animal Farm and 1984 were written as a warning about how freedom is lost to the tyranny and intolerance of totalitarianism.  Read More ›
Fight the Good Fight

Fight the Good Fight

Hard choices lie ahead, Christians. The bestselling team of James Robison and Jay Richards show what’s at stake in our post-Christian society, how to prepare, and why we must never forget that the battle, above all, is spiritual. Our rulers have kicked aside our Constitution and common sense. They have demonized our heroes. Now they’re trying to erase the difference Read More ›