The Dean’s List

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Connecticut’s new homeschooling restrictions spark alarm among parents and advocates who say House Bill 5468 treats families as suspects before they teach at home. Critics warn mandatory reviews, government oversight, and background checks threaten parental rights, educational freedom, homeschool independence, and similar freedoms across America today in the years ahead...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – “This Department of Justice will not tolerate local school authorities trampling on the rights of parents concerning the education of their children,” Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon. The Justice Department is looking into whether their policies and practices regarding instruction on sexual orientation and gender ideology violate...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – The Marxists education system worked through fear . . students were raised to be afraid . . teachers discouraged creative thought. She was not allowed to sing in school unless it was a song praising communism or Lenin. As a ten year old, she realized she would not achieve any dreams of her own...

The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – In a classical education, memorization plays a primary role. As a matter of fact, memorization is the very foundation of grammar school. A few years ago I received a message from a former student. I taught her in middle school almost 25 years ago. Her message was short, but full of gratitude because of an assignment I insisted upon the...