The Outlaw Philosopher

Dr. Owen Anderson sat down to record an episode about ASU's ruling that his classes are "too Christian." Then the midterm results came in, and he pivoted.

In this episode, Dr. Owen Anderson argues that the explanations circulating after the election — the economy, the war, the pocketbook — don't reach the bottom of it. His diagnosis is harder, and it's aimed squarely at the church. He begins somewhere personal: people close to him voted in a direction he believes will make his position as a conservative Christian inside a state university considerably harder — and did it knowing that.

That leads to three points. One: most Christians can't say what Scripture teaches government is for. Owen turns to Romans 13:1–7 — the state exists to punish evil and commend good, not to supply cradle-to-grave benefits. Two: when Christians do open the Bible, they often misuse it, reading verses about personal and congregational obligation to the poor as mandates for federal programs. He calls it a buffet approach — collecting verses that fit a worldview formed somewhere else. Three: Christians have lost the vision for the nations, treating the faith as fire insurance and the world as brass to polish on a sinking Titanic.

Along the way: what "taking the Lord's name in vain" means in the Hebrew, the lobster argument that derails Christian freshmen every fall, and a conference talk called "Go Make Angels Fight" — Daniel, the Prince of Persia, and prayer as participation rather than passivity.

Owen's closing: don't despair over one election, and don't pretend it was nothing. "Even when we win elections, we won't know what to do with the victory."

Read the companion article: "Why Christians Lose Elections" at The Blaze

Dr. Owen Anderson — Christian Apologist. Philosopher. Writer. Co-hosted by Jorge Gil. Produced by Worldview Media. New episodes weekly.

Learn more: drowenanderson.com Owen's Substack: drowenanderson.substack.com

An ASU employee wrote an op-ed attacking Dr. Owen Anderson's lawsuit — and in one sentence denied the training assigns race blame, then in the very next sentence did exactly that. Owen's lawyers called it the best evidence they could have asked for.

In this episode of The Outlaw Philosopher, Dr. Owen Anderson puts that op-ed under the microscope and works through it line by line — not to attack its author, whom he deliberately leaves unnamed and asks listeners not to look up, but to model how to analyze an argument when you're the one being attacked. Poisoning the well. Guilt by racial association. Arguing from a particular to a universal. It becomes a live logic lesson using a real specimen.

The question underneath it all: history tells us what people did — but does skin color tell us what this person did? Owen and co-host Jorge Gil separate teaching the historical facts of slavery from assigning present moral guilt by racial category, and make the case that a university teaching the "whole truth" would include the bloody war fought to end it, the global scope of the slave trade, and the biblical ground on which slavery was always wrong in the first place.

Then the show heads into the saloon. Owen's new Blaze article asks whether a Christian can troll without sinning. Trolling isn't the creature under the bridge — it's a fishing word. You put out bait. And a real troll isn't aimed at people; it's aimed at a leader, to expose hypocrisy and free the crowd following him. Jesus called the Pharisees whitewashed tombs. Elijah asked whether Baal was on vacation. Owen's warning: most people who think they're trolling are just being rude — and watching a master do it is like watching Michael Jordan and concluding you could dunk from the free-throw line.

The episode closes with a new recurring segment — The Rattlesnake Round — rapid-fire scenarios on when to engage, when to simply ask a question, and when to just keep riding.

Note: this episode walks through the op-ed on screen. Switch to the video version if your app supports it.

Dr. Owen Anderson — Christian Apologist. Philosopher. Writer. Co-hosted by Jorge Gil, with Johana Mendoza. Produced by Worldview Media. New episodes weekly.

Learn more: drowenanderson.com Owen's Substack: drowenanderson.substack.com

Episode 6 — A Parent's Guide to Preparing for Godless College

If another parent told you your child's school was on fire, you'd pull them out. Dr. Owen Anderson's warning: the university is on fire, and most parents send their kids in unprepared.

In this episode, Dr. Owen Anderson gives parents three concrete steps to prepare a child for a godless college — and he's clear about what he isn't saying. He isn't telling you to keep your kids home, and he isn't offering a guarantee they'll keep the faith. He's saying the odds change when a family prepares.

Step one: know the material yourself — Owen walks through his PragerU video on the beginning of wisdom and unpacks what "the fear of the LORD" actually means. Step two: teach your kids to ask good questions, never as a gotcha. Step three: know the difference between good and evil, life and death — the exact seam where deconstruction happens.

Co-host Jorge Gil brings stories from a Chicago conference where parents described children who now refuse to speak to them. Owen walks through Socrates in Plato's Apology — the politicians, the artists, the craftsmen — and why none of them could say what all their skill was finally for. Hence the distinction anchoring the episode: natural talent is not moral talent, and expertise is not wisdom. A professor can be brilliant about chemistry and hold one of the dumbest ideas you've ever heard about God.

The payoff is a short list of questions worth more than any ranking: Does this professor know the limits of his own knowledge? Can he explain what is objectively good, and why? Does he acknowledge a source of wisdom beyond himself? And the one Owen says reveals the most — "Do you worship God on the Lord's Day?" followed by "Why not?"

Plus live audience questions: how a busy parent finds time for any of this, whether peer groups matter more than parents, and how trials of faith actually work.

From this episode: Owen's PragerU video on the beginning of wisdom: youtu.be/B5nFq5yQbyc The Intellectual Nutrition Label: IntellectualNutritionLabel.com Owen's Substack (free): drowenanderson.substack.com

Dr. Owen Anderson — Christian Apologist. Philosopher. Writer. Co-hosted by Jorge Gil. Produced by Worldview Media. New episodes weekly.

Learn more: drowenanderson.com

Before you pay someone tens of thousands of dollars to shape your child's mind, shouldn't you know what that person believes about God, truth, and morality?

In this episode of The Outlaw Philosopher, Dr. Owen Anderson introduces a tool he built for parents and students: the Intellectual Nutrition Label. We read labels before we buy food, because ingredients have consequences. Intellectual ingredients have consequences too — and most families never check them.

Owen and co-host Jorge Gil work through two frameworks. First, the six-step strategy by which Western universities went from being founded on Christian conviction to teaching that Christianity is the oppressor: the great divide between theology and the other disciplines, the dismissal of general revelation, the retreat into "neutrality," multiculturalism, and finally today's oppression studies. Owen's point is that most parents are still picturing step five — and their kids are living in step six.

Second, the Romans 1 test: an objective way to identify a godless worldview without claiming to read anyone's mind. God is clearly revealed. That knowledge creates an obligation. Refusing it isn't neutrality, it's failure. Something always takes God's place. And the end of that road is a darkened mind — not an empty mind, but one crowded with information and deprived of wisdom.

Then the practical part: the five questions to ask any professor before enrolling. What is ultimately real? How do we know truth? What makes something good or evil? What is a human being? What is the highest good? Plus the one question Owen says reveals the most — is there any belief in this class that can never be questioned?

Also in this episode: why a student's first year should be spent scouting rather than fighting, the difference between exposure to a false worldview and compelled affirmation of it, and the moment Owen's own child asked whether raising a hand in class would hurt their grade.

For parents choosing a school, students already in the classroom, and donors who want to know where their money actually goes.

Free training videos and the framework from this episode: IntellectualNutritionLabel.com

Dr. Owen Anderson — Christian Apologist. Philosopher. Writer. Co-hosted by Jorge Gil. Produced by Worldview Media. New episodes weekly.

Learn more: drowenanderson.com

"Is that principle non-existent in Arizona?" — the question from the Chief Justice that ASU's lawyer could not answer.

In this episode of The Outlaw Philosopher, Dr. Owen Anderson takes you inside the Arizona Supreme Court, where his case was finally heard on September 1, 2026. He walks through the actual oral arguments — his attorney John Riches of the Goldwater Institute, and ASU's counsel from Perkins Coie — and translates the legalese into plain English.

At the center of it is a principle older than the United States itself: ubi jus ibi remedium — where there is a right, there is a remedy. Justice Bolick invoked it by name, citing Chief Justice John Marshall. Chief Justice Timmer pressed it again. ASU's attorney had no answer: he admitted he'd forgotten a justice's question, conceded he knew of no case law supporting his position, and closed the loop on a circular argument. Owen breaks down why it fails — and what ASU's proposed "remedy" actually amounts to: filing a report asking the guilty party to turn itself in.

Then the episode turns darker. After the hearing, NPR affiliate KJZZ ran a straightforward news story — and the comment section filled with body-shaming, racial insults, religious mockery, and gender attacks, some from ASU professors posting under their own names. From people who champion DEI. So Owen asks the question this episode is named for: is this ordinary human anger, or is something else at work? Drawing on Robert George's idea of identity-forming beliefs, and distinguishing demonic possession from demonic affliction, he and co-host Jorge Gil examine what that hatred reveals — and why he considers the comment thread the most useful data set he's gathered yet.

The one line for the whole episode: this was never about whether Owen Anderson was personally offended. It's about whether state institutions are above the law — and who gets to enforce it when they break it.

Dr. Owen Anderson — Christian Apologist. Philosopher. Writer. Co-hosted by Jorge Gil, with Johana Mendoza. Produced by Worldview Media. New episodes weekly.

Learn more: https://drowenanderson.com

One professor. One state university. And a single question that could decide whether any Christian employee in Arizona ever gets their day in court again.

Recorded on the eve of oral arguments, this episode of The Outlaw Philosopher finds Dr. Owen Anderson — professor of philosophy and religious studies at Arizona State University — hours away from facing the Arizona Supreme Court. But the fight tomorrow isn't about the DEI training itself. It's more dangerous than that: ASU's lawyers — the same firm Hillary Clinton hired in 2016 — are arguing that Anderson has no standing to sue at all. That a state employee simply can't take his employer to court, no matter what the law says.

With co-host Jorge Gil, Owen lays out what's really on the line. If he loses, the ruling wouldn't just shield one university — it would hand every state institution in Arizona a "golden pass": require the training, silence the dissenters, and leave teachers, police officers, and professors with no one left to hold them accountable. If he wins, the doors to trial swing open — and ASU's administrators finally answer, under oath, for a training that brands America a white-supremacist nation and Christianity a colonizer.

This is the episode about the quiet strategy institutions use to silence believers before the argument even begins — the "million little paper cuts" bleeding the university dry — and why, as Owen puts it, when man rewrites God's law, the faithful have to become outlaws.

"The Lord is my light." Pray for a good outcome.

Dr. Owen Anderson — Christian Apologist. Philosopher. Writer. Co-hosted by Jorge Gil. Produced by Worldview Media. New episodes weekly.

The DEI training was marked "required" in red. Dr. Owen Anderson refused — and on September 1, 2026, that refusal goes before the Arizona Supreme Court.

In this episode of The Outlaw Philosopher, Dr. Owen Anderson — professor of philosophy and religious studies at Arizona State University and a Bible-believing Christian — walks co-host Jorge Gil line by line through ASU's "Inclusive Communities" training: the claim that America is a currently white-supremacist nation, the call to "critique whiteness," white privilege and the "broke white person," decolonization, "infinite genders," and compelled-belief quizzes. Then he breaks down the case itself — Arizona Board of Regents v. Anderson — where the fight isn't yet about the training, but about whether a state employee even has the standing to sue his employer. Represented by the Goldwater Institute, Owen argues a principle straight from Thomas Aquinas: a law you cannot enforce is no law at all.

Part legal briefing, part philosophy, part frontier justice — and a warning to every parent, pastor, student, and donor about what the modern university actually teaches.

Dr. Owen Anderson — Christian Apologist. Philosopher. Writer. Produced by Worldview Media. New episodes weekly.

Learn more about Owen's work: https://drowenanderson.com

How does a Bible-believing Christian spend 26 years inside one of America's largest public universities — earning tenure, rising to full professor, serving as Faculty Senate President — and conclude the institution has entered a dark age?

In this debut episode of The Outlaw Philosopher, Dr. Owen Anderson and co-host Jorge Gil trace two questions: how someone with those convictions survived and rose in the modern university, and what happened to the university while he was there. Along the way: the collapse of multiculturalism into "oppression studies," the Marxist oppressor/oppressed dialectic driving DEI, the crucial difference between power and authority, and what the university was originally built for. Owen also previews his case against ASU, headed to the Arizona Supreme Court on September 1, 2026.

This is the foundational episode — the map for everything the series explores in the weeks ahead.

Dr. Owen Anderson — Christian Apologist. Philosopher. Writer. Produced by Worldview Media. New episodes weekly.