What the Cool Kids are Doing
While some teens are wasting their time playing the choking game this summer (or is that last summer?), others are immersing themselves in conservative culture.
The New York Times reports,
Young people with old books is a common sight on the conservative circuit, and perhaps a growing one. While the movement has long sought to transmit its intellectual heritage to its young, that mission shows signs of new urgency amid fears of ideological drift.
Everywhere young conservatives turn there are conferences, seminars and reading lists that promote figures from the movement’s formative years. Along with Kirk, they include such canonical names from the 40’s and 50’s as Friedrich A. Hayek, Frank S. Meyer, Milton Friedman and William F. Buckley Jr.
The entire article is worth a read. Its main flaw, however, is its focus on what could be called “mainstream” organizations. The real fun is in the camps and organizations that fly under the radar–like this Randian camp for kids.
Camp Indecon offers opportunities and experiences unlike any other summer camp. For example:
Last year, we had a fifteen-year-old girl with a Catholic upbringing who came to camp for the first time. Turned out one of the sixteen year-old boys was very much attracted to her, and she to him, and one evening they got into a discussion in which he explained what Objectivism was.
Later, he won her heart with a compelling explanation of the Objectivist Center-Ayn Rand Institute schism.