Defend faith, freedom, and family with our newest online course, “Totalitarian Novels.”
How do you fight totalitarianism?
It’s the question for our time. And the answer may surprise you.
That’s why we made our free online course, “Totalitarian Novels.” Hillsdale College President Larry P. Arnn teaches this course through four novels: George Orwell’s 1984, Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, Arthur Koestler’s Darkness at Noon, and C.S. Lewis’s That Hideous Strength.
You’ll find the worlds of these novels are eerily familiar…
- Endless wars, a surveillance state, and media distortions of history and truth characterize not only Oceania—the dystopian world of 1984—but also modern-day America.
- The drugged and pleasure-obsessed inhabitants of Brave New World reflect a troubling reality in modern America, where addictions to alcohol, fentanyl, pornography, food, gambling, and more are on the rise.
- A country stages a show trial for a political figure who fails to conform to ideological orthodoxy—a theme central to Darkness at Noon and a striking parallel to the events of the past several years in American politics.
- If you’ve heard experts throw around the phrase “Trust the science,” you’ll recognize the bureaucratic despotism of N.I.C.E. (National Institute of Co-ordinated Experiments) in That Hideous Strength.
Just as we can find the aspects of these various totalitarian governments in our country…
...we can discover within ourselves the hidden strength embodied in the virtues of the heroes from these very novels.
We can have the intellectual integrity of Winston Smith and Rubashov.
We can have the moral courage to live a life larger than pleasure-seeking and addiction, like John the Savage.
Like the Old Ones, we can be loyal to our family and friends.
And above all, we can have Jane and Ransom’s faith in God.
And this year, the resolve to have these virtues will be more important than ever.
We’re at a turning point in our nation’s history. After decades of far-Left despotism, the American people have said, “ENOUGH!”
And that means—like the heroes of these novels—we have the opportunity to stop the totalitarian trends and ideologies in our country before they are completely and utterly irreversible.
That’s why we need you to make this course available to as many Americans as possible. It will be one of the most important ways you will help stamp out the far-Left’s totalitarian tendencies.
Will you help us promote this new free online course and expand our educational outreach efforts to defend faith, family, and freedom against totalitarianism?
In addition to enrolling as many Americans as possible in this important course, your support will:
- Restore excellence in K-12 education by launching and providing ongoing guidance to dozens classical K-12 schools nationwide that offer a strong American history and civics curriculum.
- Teach millions of citizens nationwide through other free online courses, such as “Constitution 101: The Meaning and History of the Constitution,” “Marxism, Socialism, and Communism,” and “C.S. Lewis on Christianity.”
- Reach over 6.6 million households and businesses nationwide with Imprimis, Hillsdale’s free “digest of liberty.”
Here’s one other thing you should know...
We refuse to accept any taxpayer funding, not even indirectly in the form of federal or state student grants or loans. Our work is entirely dependent on the support of friends like you, who understand the importance of education to liberty.
Your generous tax-deductible gift will ensure that anyone who wants to understand how to defend liberty will be able to learn from these novels. This course is one of the best ways you can take this historic chance we have to stop totalitarianism in America today.
As a thank you for your gift of $100 or more, we’ll send you a special Blu-ray edition of our course, “Totalitarian Novels.”
We are grateful for your help in defending liberty through sharing these novels with millions of Americans.
Please make your best tax-deductible gift now by using the secure form below.