Columbia taught her how to be a good socialist, but she refused

Columbia taught her how to be a good socialist, but she refused

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Columbia promotes socialism while ignoring thinkers who defend liberty, free markets, and constitutional principles. John Witherspoon’s Princeton legacy contrasts sharply with today’s ideological classrooms, while Liza Libes’s Soviet family history exposes socialism’s true cost and reminds readers why education must recover truth, goodness, beauty, and honest historical memory...

Thomas Jefferson, the man with a masterly pen

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Thomas Jefferson’s gift for writing shapes America’s founding voice, from A Summary View of the Rights of British America to the Declaration of Independence. His classical education, bold language, and fearless counsel to King George III reveal why John Adams praises him as a man with a masterly pen today...

Is there a mythology surrounding 1776?

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – A defense of 1776 challenges modern claims that America’s founding ideals are mythology. By revisiting Jefferson, Aristotle, virtue, and classical learning, it argues that the founding generation understands happiness as moral formation rather than selfish desire, urging readers to recover old books, civic wisdom, and historical memory today...

Nation’s Report Card: Student achievement remains below pre-pandemic levels

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Twenty-one percent of the colleges earned an “F,” largely because they are teaching practices debunked years ago, such as “three-cuing,” where children look at pictures to guess words that they don’t know, the report said. “Failing to prepare future teachers to teach reading well is a form of educational malpractice against...

The story of two Virginians going toe-to-toe on Independence

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Two Virginia founders, Richard Henry Lee and Benjamin Harrison, stand on opposite sides of the independence debate before both sign the Declaration of Independence. Their story reveals clashing strategies, deep family legacies, and the difficult path from hopes of reconciliation to a shared commitment to American liberty and self-government together...