William H. Young

Author, Ordering America: Fulfilling the Ideals of Western Civilization

Biography


The Honorable William H. Young was appointed by President George H. W. Bush to be Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy and served in that position from November 1989 to January 1993. He is the author of Ordering America: Fulfilling the Ideals of Western Civilization (2010) and Centering America: Resurrecting the Local Progressive Ideal (2002).


Articles

November 8, 2022

Congress Finally Acts

William H. Young

Congress should use its authority to preserve American history for future generations, not to reinvent it according to a political agenda. 

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August 5, 2022

The Woke Conversion of Montpelier

William H. Young

The developments at Montpelier represent another nail in the coffin of an America based on Western Civilization.

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May 25, 2022

The Climate Emergency, the Public Voice, and Nuclear Energy

William H. Young

Neither a turn to the past nor higher education’s present environmentalist fantasies are likely to provide the expansion of safe, cost-effective nuclear energy that the nation needs and desires.

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March 18, 2022

Our Difficult Challenge Ahead

William H. Young

Progressive elites and youth—the progeny of Higher Education—have embedded ideas and practices in American governance and society that will be difficult to displace.

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November 9, 2021

Political Will and Social Construction Versus Human Nature

William H. Young

Today's academy seeks to overcome fundamental aspects of human nature—and change the character of the nation.

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December 4, 2020

Turning Higher Education and America From Racism

William H. Young

Each year, more Americans see racism as a major problem plaguing the country. And yet, there has been very little change in the status of blacks for decades. Might sociologists be to blame?

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January 21, 2020

Racial Equity and Social Justice — Courtesy of Higher Education

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Local governments are enacting higher education mandates on social justice and equality argues William Young.

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October 4, 2019

Teaching American History: The Place of Slavery

William H. Young

William Young discusses the Montpelier Foundation's ideologically skewed initiative to revise American history curricula.

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October 17, 2018

Hamilton: An American Musical - Its National Influence as Art

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William Young finds much to praise in the hit musical.

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July 20, 2018

The Misappropriation of Madison and Montpelier

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William Young discusses the ideologically revised exhibits at James Madison's homestead.

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