Educator, Advisor, Trustee
Reno, NV
Joined May 2023
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American military intelligence had a mixed beginning: rough on execution, but outstanding in rhetoric. What @Yale taught patriot Nathan Hale. @NASorg @J_Gould_
amrev250.substack.com/p/but-…
Everyone needs a good retreat. Let's celebrate Washington's Escape from New York, 250 years ago today. @NASorg @J_Gould_ amrev250.substack.com/p/esca…
Family Flourishing by Jay Hughes, Mary Duke, and Stacy Allred now available--and for the next 5 days download Kindle version free from Amazon: amazon.com/dp/B0H8Q81HNM?lv=…
June 12, the perfect day for a refresher on our natural rights, straight from the Virginia Declaration of Rights. @nasorg, @J_Gould_ and @sentimkaine Check it out: mindingthecampus.org/2026/06…
Celebrating the 250th anniversary of the day that Washington turned the British occupiers of Boston into the besieged: amrev250.substack.com/p/nine…
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Thomas Paine is rarely counted among the Founders. Yet without Common Sense in January 1776, there likely would have been no Declaration in July. Read our latest on Substack. @MindingCampus @NASorg @Keith_Whitaker_ @J_Gould_
Happy 250th to the first American constitution
“On January 5, 1776, this provincial body, “Resolved themselves into a House of Representatives or Assembly for the Colony of New Hampshire,’ and as such voted to ‘take up civil government for this Colony.’” @Keith_Whitaker_
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Before the Declaration came Dunmore’s declaration. His gambit to arm enslaved men rattled Virginia. @MindingCampus's American Revolution series follows the road from the Boston Tea Party to 1776. mindingthecampus.org/2025/11…
Grokipedia page on @NASorg — I haven’t checked it all for accuracy but at first glance it looks about 1000x better than Wikipedia, and certainly much more comprehensive and up to date: grokipedia.com/page/National…
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Charlie Kirk has been assassinated.
For years, Kirk warned that rising campus antisemitism was more than “just speech.” New data shows he was right: 1 in 3 Stanford students now say violence is justified to silence views they oppose.
Radical groups like Unity of Fields are training students in violent tactics, distributing sabotage manuals, and openly glorifying terrorism, all while being welcomed onto campuses. Administrators look the other way, leaving Jewish students and faculty vulnerable.
Kirk’s murder is the tragic endpoint of this failure. Universities must act now:
- Ban extremist groups
- Enforce the law against true threats
- Protect Jewish students and faculty
The line between rhetoric and violence has been crossed. Higher education must decide: sanctuary for learning, or incubator of hate.
Read Samuel J. Abrams's latest: mindingthecampus.org/2025/09…
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𝐔𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐠𝐨'𝐬 $𝟏𝟎𝟎𝐌 𝐂𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐬: 𝐒𝐞𝐥𝐟-𝐈𝐧𝐟𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐖𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐬
Despite $3B+ in revenue, UChicago is:
- Cutting 150 staff positions
- Freezing 19 doctoral programs (mostly humanities)
- Drowning in $6.3B debt (70% of endowment!)
The university wants to blame Trump, but the real problem goes back years:
- Massive borrowing for failed ventures
- Diverting tuition from teaching to admin bloat
- Playing venture capitalist instead of educating students
- Cutting liberal arts while chasing profitable patents
Now students pay more for larger classes, fewer professors, and AI-taught language courses.
When elite universities abandon education for profit, we all lose
Read @J_Gould_'s latest: mindingthecampus.org/2025/09…
Why does Book Ten of the Republic even exist? Didn't they already deal with poetry and justice? Myth of Er, or more like myth of error? You decide: youtu.be/RWaQXuiOi2o?si=Fw8n… via @YouTube
Two much philosophy in one place: brief introductions to Plato's Republic Books Eight AND Nine! youtu.be/OHhvdFut7iQ youtu.be/42qxpBwH1pU
"England, Sir, is a nation which still, I hope, respects, and formerly adored, her freedom." Today Burke might be arrested in England for memes. But is he still right about Americans' love of freedom? See David Randall at @NASorg mindingthecampus.org/2025/03…
Plato could have planned all his dialogues when he was young. Here's Nabokov on his autobiography: Although composed in an "erratic sequence" from 1936-1951, "his essays "had been neatly filling numbered gaps in my mind" following an order "that had been established in 1936 ..."
Plato's Republic Book Seven -- Brief Introduction ... Or how I stopped worrying and learned to love the Cave ... youtu.be/QCb5d04LY7M?si=7GQg… via @YouTube
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University of Nevada, Reno is discriminating against prospective and current students in a mission to raise its percentage of Hispanic students high enough to qualify for millions more in federal aid.
@kissel_adam breaks it down @MindingCampus:
mindingthecampus.org/2024/11…
