This is what made Samuel Adams so special

This is what made Samuel Adams so special

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Samuel Adams emerges as a driving force behind American independence, organizing revolutionary energy when many still doubt freedom is possible. His conviction, strategy, and persistence help turn a distant dream into a determined movement, making him a catalyst who pushes the colonies toward courage, unity, resistance, and lasting self-government...

What makes America truly exceptional?

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Our Constitution and religious beliefs have been under assault for decades by many who stand opposed to American values and virtues. Because it’s these two elements that are at the heart of American exceptionalism. Victor Davis Hanson expounds accurately on American exceptionalism - what made it and what will destroy it...

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...