Reclaim the Name!
26 February 2025
A culture shift is under way in America. The lunacy of America’s recent cultural revolution is waning. The “mostly peaceful” mobs have flamed out, as mobs inevitably do.
We saw the final death spasms of this violent revolution on campuses last year where students, activists, and agitators demanded support for Hamas, an antisemitic terrorist organization that cheers the murder, rape, and torture of Jews. The radicals finally went too far.
To call America’s recent experience a “cultural revolution” may seem hyperbolic, but let’s remind ourselves what we have endured over the last several years.
Students were indoctrinated to hate their country, to kneel for the national anthem, and to tear down statues. The “1619 Project” replaced the Spirit of 1776 and dismissed the foundational beliefs expressed in the Declaration of Independence. Anti-racism, DEI, and CRT supplanted equality of opportunity with equality of outcome. LGBTQ+ activists undermined traditional family values while mocking long-standing biblical tradition.
Americans finally said “Enough!” As historian Victor Davis Hanson says, we are living through a counter-revolutionary restoration of traditional values.
A Great Restoration is indeed under way—a restoration that celebrates America’s past, with a renewed appreciation of heroic men like George Washington and Robert E. Lee who inspired generations of Americans with courage, honor, and virtue. Next year will mark the 250th anniversary of American Independence, and it will be an epic celebration.
Andrew Breitbart famously said that politics are downstream from culture. And campus politics could certainly influence the design and curating of the proposed Institutional History Museum at W&L. Our hope is that the museum will accurately (and unashamedly) reflect W&L’s unique history and not be unduly guided by the radical viewpoints of unrepentant cultural revolutionaries.
Of course, before Washington and Lee creates a new museum, they should look back at the one they so foolishly shut down five years ago.
Our Postgraduate Fellow, Kamron Spivey, makes this case in The W&L Spectator. Click the below link to read more, and please support The Generals Redoubt as we “Reclaim the Name” and convince the administration to reopen our beloved chapel museum.
https://www.wluspectator.com/articles/wlu-old-lee-chapel-museum
Sincerely,
Gib Kerr, ‘85
The Generals Redoubt
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