Road to the Middle Class - by Christopher Chantrill

ROAD TO THE MIDDLE CLASS is a forthcoming book and a supporting website advancing the concept that all people are, or ought to be, capable of self-government. Further, we believe that people learn best how to be self-governing through the four social crucibles of enthusiastic religion, education, mutual aid, and living under law.

Conversely, we do not think that the current welfare state and its rule of the liberal experts does much to encourage self-government and civic virtue. We agree with the Canadian philosopher Mark Steyn that the current political system encourages permanent adolescence.

We invite you to read the manifesto to get an blurb on the project and the book. Or, if you like, plunge right into the book with the table of contents and Chapter One: After the Welfare State. For serious students there is an online test to measure your knowledge of the road to the middle class.

Oped of the Week

EVERY WEEK on Monday morning we publish an oped here on www.roadtothemiddleclass.com. You have probably already read this week’s article “2012: It's Bain Capital vs. Obama Capital.” Here are a couple of recent efforts for you to enjoy:

The Bad News on Unemployment
CONSERVATIVES are anxious to see bad news in the drop in the headline unemployment rate to 8.5 percent. Yes, it’s fabulous that employment is finally turning upwards, but the labor force
| link | 01/20/12
Steven Pinker and the Decline of Violence
FOR YEARS I’VE been saying that people are very sensitive to “incoming rounds.” When a mortar round, real or metaphorical, lands in your fire-base, it spreads death and destruction.
| link | 01/20/12

and there is lots more.

Daily Blogging

WE BLOG DAILY, Monday to Friday, at www.roadtothemiddleclass.com, chiefly on national US politics, religion, education, mutual aid, and law. We also look at our junior partners in the global Anglospheric hegemony, the British. It is hard to say why, but very often our blogging zeroes in like a laser on liberal hypocrisies, monopolies, and sinecures. Of course, at Road to the Middle Class we love our liberal friends to bits, but we do not take them quite as seriously as they do. If we get too pompous and serious, please get in touch and tell us to lighten up.

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Enjoy.