Brave and far-sighted men — Meriwether Lewis and William Clark (1804–1806), Kit Carson (1820s-1850s), John Fremont (1840s), and more — pushed west across America’s vast frontier and opened the way for the physical expansion of a liberty-loving country.

Today, brave and far-sighted men and women must look back to another “West,” this time to the Euro-American enlightenment values that literally created the United States as the first consciously-rationally created nation in history.

The current mission is to forge ahead by establishing a new frontier for those values to flourish again not only to chart a philosophical path to an expanded future but also to save what is left of a culturally shrinking Western civilization. The journey now must be guided not by exploring new land but by exploring renewed ideas.

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