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"This is a page-turner of a story. It reads like a novel, but the events described are all true, incredibly so." — William F. Buckley Jr.
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The Ben Hart Letter is mostly my weekly take on the news. There’s really only about 3 minutes of actual news each day. The rest is filler. The Ben Hart Letter helps you get quickly to the bottom line.
I also write about tips for success, entrepreneurship, health, fitness, and philosophy of life — topics that interest me and that might interest you.
I envision this as a community of like-minded pro-freedom people who want to push back against the globalists and creeping totalitarianism.
And I think you’ll love Poisoned Ivy. This book was a national bestseller when first published in 1984.
I’m republishing it now. It also available on Amazon for $19.95. But there’s no need for you to buy it because I’m giving the book to you here for no cost, along with my weekly dispatch.
Here’s the basic thrust of POISONED IVY . . .
I wrote this book in 1981-82. This book was the first to diagnose what Elon Musk would later label as “The Woke Mind Virus” -- but which I called “The Ethos” at that time.
“The Ethos” is not just about politics; it’s all-encompassing. “The Ethos” is a quasi-religion that covers all aspects of life, including how you dress and what you eat. “The Ethos” even has its own language. Subscribers to “The Ethos” often participate in group chants.
You are expected to have the correct “attitudes” and “feelings” about everything. The Ethos is totalitarian in nature. It attempts to crush freedom of speech and thought.
The origin of “The Ethos” was what we called “The Victim Studies” academic departments, which were just getting started when I was at Dartmouth -- such as “Black Studies,” Women’s Studies,” and later “LGBTQ Studies” and the like.
Eventually, the insane ideology underlying these “Victim Studies” programs would seep into the traditional academic curricula -- so that even logic and math came to be characterized as “racist” and as tools of oppression by the “white colonizers.”
This ideology has become the norm in the public schools down through kindergarten, and younger.
In 1980, a group of students at Dartmouth, including me, saw this strange phenomenon developing. In response, we launched The Dartmouth Review.
Some of the most famous editors of The Dartmouth Review include Laura Ingraham, Dinesh D’Souza, and Harmeet Dhillon.
Dartmouth Review cartoonist Steve Kelly went on to win a Pulitzer Prize for his political cartoons.
The emergence of THE DARTMOUTH REVIEW was widely covered by the national media, including CBS “60 Minutes.”
The success of the paper inspired the launch of upwards of 150 conservative student newspapers on campuses across America during the 1980s including The Stanford Review, founded by Peter Thiel who co-founded PayPal with Elon Musk; and the launch of The Cornell Review by Ann Counter.
The highly influential Federalist Society was an outgrowth of the conservative student newspaper movement.
Surprisingly, Poisoned Ivy received favorable reviews in The New York Times and most of the legacy media at the time it came out.
Poisoned Ivy reads like a novel; but incredibly, all events described in this book actually occurred.
For example, the opening chapter is titled “I Was Bitten by a Dartmouth College Official.”
This occurred while I was distributing copies of the paper in the Dartmouth Administration building in 1981.
Reality is often much stranger than fiction, which is certainly true of the events that triggered the founding of The Dartmouth Review . . . and the cascading aftermath.
This new edition’s EPILOGUE (5,000 words, broken up into sections) is epic, and is almost a complete book unto itself.
The Dartmouth Review continues to publish nearly half a century after its founding.
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