Richardcyoung.com

The Online Home of Author and Investor, Dick Young

  • Home
  • How We Are Different
  • About Us
    • Foundation Principles
    • Contributors
  • Investing
    • You’ve Read The Last Issue of Intelligence Report, Now What?
  • Your Survival Guy
  • The Great Reset
  • COVID-19
  • My Rifles
  • Dividends and Compounding
  • Your Security
  • The Swiss Way
  • Dick Young
  • Debbie Young
  • Key West
  • Paris
  • Dick’s R&B Top 100
  • Liberty & Freedom Map
  • Bank Credit & Money
  • Your Survival Guy’s Super States
  • NNT & Cholesterol
  • Work to Make Money/Invest to Save Money
  • Your Health
  • Ron Paul
  • US Treasury Yield Curve: My Favorite Investor Tool

The Conservative Book of the Year

January 27, 2022 By Debbie Young

Every year thousands of political books hit the shelves, and Americans are treated to new theories of political ideology, tell-all stories from insiders, and autobiographical books written to set the stage for future campaigns. Each year, the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI) chooses its “Conservative Book of the Year,” and this year it has gone to Victor Davis Hanson’s The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America. ISI summarizes the book, writing:

In The Dying Citizen, Victor Davis Hanson explores the history of citizenship—and how rare of an idea “the citizen” has been throughout human history. Hanson argues that citizenship was one of America’s most valued ideas until recent decades. Today, the American citizen is on life-support thanks to fifty years of fractured social institutions, a decaying middle class, open borders, an increased dependence on the federal government, and a dwindling understanding of the constitution. And, as Hanson explains, as goes the American citizen so goes American liberty. Is there hope? Hanson thinks so, but it will take nothing short of “shock treatment” on a national scale.

“ISI is pleased to recognize Victor Davis Hanson’s The Dying Citizen as an impressive contribution to the conservative intellectual tradition in America,” noted ISI President and CEO, Jonny Burtka. “As Daniel Mahoney wrote in National Review, Hanson’s book is a ‘welcome corrective to those influential forces and doctrines in our midst that conspire to delegitimize the citizen’ and a call to restore the central role of citizenship in American society.”

What Makes the Conservative Book of the Year?

The ISI’s criteria for winners of its Conservative Book of the Year are:

  • Have been published during the previous calendar year, up to and including December 31
  • Advance our understanding of conservative principles
  • Make an outstanding contribution to the literature of the subject
  • Avoid factional or partisan argumentation

In Good Company

Hanson’s book lands among a group of prestigious past winners.

ISI honors the Conservative Book of the Year with the Paolucci Book Award. The award is named in memory of Henry and Anne Paolucci, distinguished scholars, teachers, and writers who exemplified the ideal of the public intellectual.
The award winner’s lecture is routinely aired on C-SPAN’s Book TV. See links below for previous broadcasts. Past winners of the award include:
  • 2021: Yuval Levin, A Time to Build
  • 2020: Wilfred M. McClay, Land of Hope
  • 2019: Yoram Hazony, The Virtue of Nationalism
  • 2017–18: Rod Dreher, The Benedict Option
  • 2016: Bradley J. Birzer, Russell Kirk: American Conservative
  • 2015: Richard Brookhiser, Founders’ Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln
  • 2014: Daniel Hannan, Inventing Freedom
  • 2013: Brad S. Gregory, The Unintended Reformation
  • 2012: John Fonte, Sovereignty or Submission
  • 2011: Pauline Maier, Ratification
  • 2010: Angelo M. Codevilla, Advice to War Presidents
  • 2009: Philip Hamburger, Law and Judicial Duty
  • 2008: Charles Taylor, A Secular Age
  • 2007: Andrew Roberts, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples since 1900
  • 2006: William Daugherty, Executive Secrets

If you’re willing to fight for Main Street America, click here to sign up for the Richardcyoung.com free weekly email.

Related Posts

  • Happy New Year!
  • Happy New Year!
  • Happy New Year!
  • Happy New Year!
  • Author
  • Recent Posts
Debbie Young
Debbie, editor-in-chief of Richardcyoung.com, has been associate editor of Dick Young’s investment strategy reports for over three decades. When not in Key West, Debbie spends her free time researching and writing in and about Paris and Burgundy, France, cooking on her AGA Cooker, driving her Porsche Boxter S through Vermont and Maine, and practicing yoga.
Latest posts by Debbie Young (see all)
  • Pushing Back at ESG - March 20, 2023
  • Cheap Reliable Heating – a Life Saver - March 17, 2023
  • ESG, By-Pass the Ballot Box - March 16, 2023

Dick Young’s Must Reads

  • Paris, The Palace Hotels: Part I
  • When Is the Best Time for You to Do This?
  • Mises and Rothbard Finally Get Their Due
  • To Me There Isn’t a Better Way to Live
  • The Case for Individual Stocks: Now More than Ever
  • Work to Make Money/Invest to Save Money
  • Biden Wants to Gut the Tax Benefit of 401K Plans
  • Your Survival Guy at Fidelity and Your RMD Compliance
  • The Clock is Ticking: You Must Protect Your Family
  • Protection While Traveling in France

Our Most Popular Posts

  • Washington Is the Systemic Risk
  • Matt Taibbi Exposes the "Censorship-Industrial Complex"
  • “Will We Have Enough to Live On Forever?”
  • SVB – There’s Panic in the Air
  • The Education of Barney Frank
  • MASKS: "No Measurable Difference in Outcome"
  • Coal Is Keeping the Lights On
  • WORKING OVERTIME: The COVID Propaganda Machine
  • Silicon Valley Bank: What Do Investors Expect?
  • How about Hiring Erik Prince to Crush the Drug Cartels?

Disclosure

RSS Youngresearch.com

  • Your Survival Guy’s BEST Insider’s Guide to Key West
  • For Whom Is Your Portfolio Serving?
  • Who’s to Blame for Banking Vulnerability?
  • Mortgage Market Not Expected to Settle Down Soon
  • Are You Living Your Best Life?
  • Were Silicon Valley Bank’s Motivations for Taking Losses Pure?
  • Will the Black Swan Usher in Digital Dollars?
  • Major Rail Merger Gets Approval
  • The Education of Barney Frank
  • Credit Suisse Announced “Material Weaknesses” In Its Internal Controls

RSS Yoursurvivalguy.com

  • Your Survival Guy’s BEST Insider’s Guide to Key West
  • Be Wary of Those Who Wrap Themselves in Capes
  • For Whom Is Your Portfolio Serving?
  • ESG: Are Markets Ready for “A Needed Dose of Reality?”
  • Was Silicon Valley Bank a Victim of ESG?
  • Are You Living Your Best Life?
  • March RAGE Gauge: Will the Black Swan Usher in Digital Dollars?
  • Gretchen Whitmer Reviving Forced Unionization in Michigan
  • Will the Black Swan Usher in Digital Dollars?
  • How the Rich Get Richer: You Invest, They Win

Pushing Back at ESG

Your Survival Guy’s BEST Insider’s Guide to Key West

Greetings from Key West

Cheap Reliable Heating – a Life Saver

For Whom Is Your Portfolio Serving?

Are You Prepared to Run Out of Water?

Copyright © 2023 | Terms & Conditions | About Us | Dick Young | Archives