The Galloway Institute began as a reaction to reading a quote from Cicero in our college dorm.

You keep talking about those celestial phenomena, whereas I should regard what happens before our very eyes as more worthy of study. Why, do you enquire how two suns can be seen, but not why in one country there are now two people's and almost two nations?

Take my advice, then, my young friends, and don't worry about the second sun. It may not exist at all; or, as it has been seen, let it exist provided it does no harm. In any case we can know nothing of such things, and even if we come to know a great deal, that kind of knowledge will not make us better or happier people.

To have one Republic and one citizen body is achievable; if it isn't achieved, we are in serious trouble. But know this: if unity is brought about we shall live better and happier lives.

We felt as if we caught a glimpse of the truth dwelling at the bottom of politics. Everything we thought we knew or cared about in this subject was reduced to a simple heuristic: victory in politics means achieving unity. 

Immediately after this discovery, our obsession with ideologies faded, and our entire view of our current political crisis was transformed. We no longer saw just a barren landscape littered with uninspiring narratives and a broken regime governed by weak lameos. Instead, we began to see an opportunity to revitalize America with a new unifying political narrative.

The idea of “unity” sounds like a normie pipe-dream amidst the challenges of modern politics and the growing divide inside the spirit of the American people, but in this chaos, we saw adventure: an opportunity to face the greatest difficulty in politics and reach the highest glory.

We have been chasing this idea for several years, and we feel confident that we are on to something. The podcast we began last August was the Galloway Institute’s first chapter, and now have our eyes set on taking this idea to the next level. Churchill’s old saying rings in my head:

This is not the end. This is not even the beginning of the end. But it is perhaps the end of the beginning.