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Nov 28, 2023Liked by Christopher F. Rufo

Leave it to real Conservatives to bring back actual Liberal Arts education.

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The irony.

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Nov 29, 2023Liked by Christopher F. Rufo

No irony - conservatives ARE the true liberals! The maniacs in your documentary are the cluster B society. They should not have their hands on the steering wheel of our civilization.

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They can't have the keys back, EVER.

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What IS actual Liberal Arts education? I didn’t actually hear anything about education in this short film. Liberal arts get said several times, but it could mean anything. What does it mean to you, Chuck?

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Oh, that tired old tactic of demanding definitions and citations and qualifications to derail discussion. If you are not asking in good faith, then why should anyone pay attention to your demands?

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Throg,

It’s actually one of the skills they teach you in a classical liberal arts education. Read some Plato. Read some Aristotle. Read some Montaigne.

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Giving short shrift to diversions is another such skill.

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Do you ever engage on substance or is it always this schoolyard meta bull?

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The irony.

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Grammar, Logic, Rhetoric

Arithmetic, Astronomy, Music

Geometry……

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and LATIN!!!! :-) Sharpens critical thinking skills and provides excellent insight into English grammar/diction.

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Nov 28, 2023Liked by Christopher F. Rufo

Well done! Short, sweet and right on point. It’s great to see the transformation that’s already taken place at New College.

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We're just getting started.

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Great news. Good for De Santis and you. I used to be tenured faculty at the University of Central Arkansas (for my sins, I taught Creative Writing, perhaps the most Woke discipline of all), but took early retirement because the restrictions on freedom of speech and action became unbearable. I portray this, in fictional form, in my satirical novel, Our Parent Who Art in Heaven (Flame Books, 2022)

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Creative writing used to be constructive, "progressive with a small "p". That was awhile ago.

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Yes. I loved it when I began, about 20 years ago. But it was taken over by activists who have little interest in literature. A terrible waste.

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I was hard Left for 38 years. Summer of 2020 was too flagrant to ignore.

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Right!

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I was too, but I began to turn a bit before that. Fortunately, lots of us have woken up, if I may put it like that--without becoming woke (which means asleep and drugged), of course.

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I'm a bizarre character. I wrote more prolifically until forced to move to VT. My health and literary skills have slipped since then. I'm somewhere on the "autistic spectrum". Maybe all of us are.

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Sociology is the most woke discipline

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Point taken. Creative Writing is up among the wokest, though, much to.its shame.

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Both are about making things up.

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True, though sociology should be a description of society as it is, not as the academics want it to be! As for literature, particularly fiction, it should be 'the lie that tells the truth'; that's what I try to do, and what all true writers do. Unfortunately the xurrent trend is to lie in order to deceive and brainwash. No wonder people are reading less fiction!

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Not always. Expository can be "creative".

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As in creative accounting, or as in, say, mathematical creativity?

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Counterrevolution. Love that word! Needs to be the mantra.

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It's one of my favorites.

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Nov 28, 2023·edited Nov 28, 2023Liked by Christopher F. Rufo

A great start....and pray that it can in time be scaled up across the country....well - in my dreams - across the entire Western world. Because this is the alternative: https://grahamcunningham.substack.com/p/how-diversity-narrows-the-mind

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Nov 29, 2023Liked by Christopher F. Rufo

Great video...I surely hope this is the beginning of a counterrevolution in academia and beyond!!

Gov. Desantis does not get enough credit for all of the push back and policy changes he has enacted to shut down the cluster B crazies that are ruining this Country....

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One less far leftist school, means less idiots/midwits running things.

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40 years ago a former friend of mine asked me to sit in on a course which she taught at the local college. It was in advanced writing. After a few sessions I begged off. It was impossible. The students were, literally, semi-literate. They took minutes to read a few sentences. Words were mispronounced. She was an adjunct who was, apparently, hired for her attractiveness. She was quite alluring. Given opportunities, apparently for that reason. So she was given this task of effectually babysitting these “students”. These were supposed to be advanced writers. They couldn’t even properly read.

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That's hilarious and so sad.

What idiots gave them the pass to even join college?

My mind boggles at these decicions made for these kids in adult bodies throughout their life.

Lack of discipline? Lack of good role models? Mayhaps they should have went to a school that would help them with basic literature first and a detox of whatever stupid they caught.

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Most were from middle class or upper working class backgrounds.

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That makes sense to me because from my understanding, the elites don't want a middle class anyways.

The middle class of yesterday were intelligent, cognative, able to write, etc and were (are still) potential threat to "the establishment".

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People with that level of resources are vital.

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Fortunately this never happens when students come to college on athletic scholarships.

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Now trans athletes steal scholarships.

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At least the problem used to be limited to a few athletes.

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Nov 29, 2023Liked by Christopher F. Rufo

Chris,

You must win the fight for New College, it’s important and we applaud your efforts.

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Nov 28, 2023Liked by Christopher F. Rufo

Great presentation. I hope that this trend can sweep across the globe and get some common sense and education back into our universities and colleges.😍🧡

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Amen.

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Love it...unless they are able to take citizens arms away. 😍

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Nov 29, 2023Liked by Christopher F. Rufo

This is a work of art! Two thoughts occur: 1. I thank God for your background in making documentaries because this medium is powerfully persuasive in our visual age. It's a beautifully crafted miniature. 2. Because it's a documentary (albeit short), one thing emerges that is lost in most of the reporting: this is a beautiful campus. One sees that especially at the end; it's worth watching right through for that. Oh, and here's a third observation: 3. I laughed out loud at your line about "rebalancing the hormones" of the college. Again, it is the visuals of chanting/screaming mini-mobs that make it clear what that imbalance was - in ironic contrast to the three hard left "cowboy/pyro professors" you highlighted (one has to ask: how were so many white male profs permitted?) It's good to laugh again about politics.

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Thank you Mr Rufo. We pray the counter revolution comes quickly.

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Nov 28, 2023Liked by Christopher F. Rufo

I live in Sarasota and I am happy the new New College has a home here. Great work and best of luck!

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Nov 28, 2023Liked by Christopher F. Rufo

One down...

AWESOME

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We can only go up from here!

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You have proven it can be done if there is a will to do it. The radical left encountered bizarrely little resistance in their long march through the institutions, but it is still a surprise that it was possible to give them the bum's rush right back out again. This could be the template for removing them from every other institution where they are entrenched.

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and I am absolutely sure you will.

Canada is quite a way behind but there is hope.

This presentation is focused on Covid but the 600 recommendations by the Commissioners acknowledge that the problem is widespread.

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https://nationalcitizensinquiry.ca/live/

( I forgot to add the site. It is in French and English )

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I never thought I would want to live in Sarasota, but you guys are making me reconsider that. I'm excited to see the long-term results of the renewal movement at New College!

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It's a great city! Very friendly for conservatives, too.

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Hey Sarasota is great. You might be surprised at all it has to offer!

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Nov 28, 2023·edited Nov 28, 2023Liked by Christopher F. Rufo

It would be great to see a collaboration between NCF and Hillsdale...

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Already begun! One of my trustee colleagues is a top administrator at Hillsdale. I'm also now a distinguished fellow at Hillsdale. Lots of productive connections.

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One of the things I think is a good strategy by Hillsdale is their refusal to accept any kind of federal, state or local government grant/subsidy/support. It allows them to really pave their own trail. It is a high price to pay given all the money that other schools take from not only our government but bad global-player governments who are not our friends. Independence has a high price but it's worth every penny.

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Indeed, the contributions from China alone are staggering. Money gives power & leverage.

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Nov 29, 2023Liked by Christopher F. Rufo

Make it rain! Spread these types of institutions around the nation.

Build them and they will come.

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