Gordon Vaughan

Read Albion’s Seed and you will see how these maps help explain American politics and culture wars even today.

Most folks don't really grasp what's going on with TFR numbers, across the world. Fertility is no longer slowly declining, now it is PLUNGING rapidly, so that even the most pessimistic estimates from a few years ago now look wildly optimistic. ☹️

Homeschool. If you haven’t had enough by now let this be your last straw. Schools are nothing more than indoctrination to socialism and we wonder where our country went wrong. Joseph McCarthy was right but didn’t go far enough. Hollywood was just the public face of the real problem.

@mattvanswol Kids can't pass standardized tests in reading, writing, math or science. Teachers are too busy pushing social agendas to teach real skills to help students. Parents are desperate to enroll their students in private schools, charter schools, and home schooling.

@mattvanswol @OccupyLibraries We will never win the war against Communism as long as we let Communists run our educational system!

@mattvanswol Yes, just to celebrate the great Communist holiday of the International Workers Movement - May Day. And you actually let them teach your kids?

Just so we are ALL CLEAR on what happened today... Educators and school administrators single-handedly CANCELLED SCHOOL for 700,000 North Carolina students... ...INCLUDING MY SON!!! To wave signs around in the street instead. The signs vary from: a) F**K ICE!!! b) Defeat Trump's Agenda c) Trump is a N*ZI d) ICE OUT!!! e) Protect trans kids f) Refuse fascism g) Stop bombing schools DO NOT TELL ME THIS WAS ABOUT KIDS. IT NEVER WAS. This was ADULTS using 700,000 children, INCLUDING MINE, as political leverage against a president they don't like. That is despicable. You know better... DO BETTER.

The lie was a planned strategy by the people pushing cultural Marxism. They new the US had no classes to use to pit people against each other, so they invented racism, climate change, etc. to foment fear, anger, rage to divided the United States, families, churches and anything good.

A reason we’re in this mess is that we’ve tacitly accepted the lie that racism is the ultimate sin. Worse than rape. Worse than grooming. Worse than pedophilia. Worse than trafficking. Worse than domestic violence. Worse than incest. Worse than everything!

After our last baby girl Audrey died at birth (22 years ago), I was shocked how we seemed to have joined a club and people started telling us their stories: miscarriages, SIDS, etc. We had four women in our home that week who had lost their first-born sons. But sure, in years following I would occasionally think, "she'd be a 2yo/teen/whatever and I would probably be annoyed by something." Turns out, life's annoyances are a privilege…

Europeans & bicoastal Americans are quick to criticize the Electoral College, but if you've traveled broadly in America, it really is almost like 50 different countries, with their own cultures and particular problems. We should be glad the U.S. has held together as well as it has, and not be too eager to mess with the Constitution…

Dick Van Dyke turned 100 years old a few months ago and is no longer allowed to play with LEGOs.

The modern Left is not a political movement; it is a synchronized demolition of Western civilization. They do not seek progress. They engineer entropy. Every policy they champion—from the dissolution of our borders to the sterilization of our children—serves a single, calculated purpose: the eradication of the sovereign individual and the installment of a permanent, dependent underclass. They weaponize language to paralyze your defense. When they scream "equity," they mean the theft of your labor to subsidize their voters. When they cry "tolerance," they demand your silence while they rewrite history to villainize your ancestors. They understand that a population ashamed of its past will never fight for its future. This is why they tear down statues and poison the curriculum; they are severing the roots of the West to ensure the tree falls without a sound. Their power relies entirely on the manufacture of crisis. They flood the nation with incompatible cultures not out of compassion, but to fracture social cohesion. A divided people cannot resist tyranny. They dismantle the nuclear family because the state cannot be god while the father remains in the home. They celebrate weakness and pathologize strength because strong men are the only obstacle to their totalitarian ambition. The era of the "polite Republican" is dead. You cannot negotiate with a virus that seeks to consume the host. The Left views your compromise as submission. They do not want to share the country; they want to rule the ruins. We must stop apologizing for our existence. We must reject their moral framing and expose their virtue as the mask of a predator. The only response to their cultural warfare is total, unapologetic dominance.

"The Extreme Crisis of Young Women" — great @freyaindiaa interview by @ChrisWillx, on her new book 'GIRLS®: Generation Z and the Commodification of Everything' youtube.com/watch?v=VDsihd…

Most colleges are leftist indoctrination centers where youthful strength and masculine ambition are either castrated by the Longhouse, or wasted in the debauchery of the frat house. We can do better. Aim for Christian excellence. nsa.edu

This is how an economy actually works

Recently, I fielded a question from some students about whether NSA is becoming a college focused on producing lawyers and politicians. I sent an email out to the student body answering that question, but then it dawned on me that perhaps this is a question amongst alumni and other friends of the college. So, I am reworking my answer a little bit so that it is aimed at more of a general audience and I’m posting it here. Here goes. The question is – Is NSA becoming more narrowly focused on preparing students for a career in politics? The answer to this question is a definite no. However, I can see why it would be easy for this question to occur to the casual observer. First, we just announced that we are adding a year of law and government to the curriculum next year. Second, at our last intern fair we had a strong showing from organizations coming from DC to recruit our students to come work in DC. Lastly, there has just been a lot of general comings and goings between Moscow and DC of late. First, let me address the new law and government colloquium. (I am actually not sure what the final title for this class will be, so this is a place holder for the moment). Not that many years ago, our philosophy colloquium was actually a course on political philosophy. We replaced that recently with a more traditional philosophy colloquium, providing the basics of the western philosophical tradition. I think that establishing that basic philosophy course was a step forward for us because it supplied a fairly essential foundation to our education that had been missing. But it was a step backward in that it removed any treatment of government from our curriculum, something that I also think is really necessary. When NSA was first started, the founders of the college actually went back to the original Harvard curriculum (1636) to build out the NSA program. At that time, the second-year Harvard students had two philosophy classes: one was moral philosophy and the other was political philosophy. Some form of political philosophy has continued since that time as a discipline expected of the liberal arts education. In fact, we have been dinged by conservative groups rating Christian liberal arts colleges (based on their curriculum) for not having a class devoted to law and government. For both these reasons, I’ve been wanting to see some form of political philosophy returned to the NSA curriculum. And I was really pleased when the faculty used this most recent curriculum overhaul to restore it. From the outset, the NSA Board of Trustees has consistently maintained several major principles, one of which is that the NSA curriculum is a general liberal arts curriculum, with no majors. The addition of a law and government colloquium will in no way steer us away from this principle. Just as the addition of a literature colloquium (which is also happening this next year) does not turn us into a literature school, neither does the law and government colloquium turn us into a prelaw program. Okay, so let’s say that you believe me thus far. But why then did we see such a strong presence of DC organizations at the internship fair? Well, I grant that we have had some very competitive political organizations, places like American Moment and Conservative Partnership Institute, become focused on recruiting from our ranks. But first, let me just point out that if you have been here for a few years, you will know that it’s not the first time that a disproportionate number of our grads have been funneled into one particular sector. As an example, for years EMSI (now Lightcast) hired a large number of NSA grads every year. The company had an entire talent-acquisition strategy that involved scoping out the top NSA students and scooping them up for EMSI. I think this was one key ingredient in their early successes. And it fits with this hiring-fad scenario: One bright NSA grad gets hired somewhere and is an amazing employee. The boss realizes that there is a whole pond of similar future hires at this one college in Moscow and begins to focus his sights on hiring from us. The next year, three NSA grads are off to wherever. And so it goes until that fad ends. In that regard, yes, I think we are seeing more focus on NSA from certain political organizations, and more NSA grads going into this sort of work. But this situation is simply the result of those organizations noticing the talent we have and doubling down on recruiting from here. We are not reworking the NSA curriculum in order to look better in their eyes. We will continue to provide the very best Christian, liberal arts education possible. That said, given our mission, which is to graduate cultural leaders, I am very proud that our college has been attracting the attention of these organizations and that they are moving our grads into positions of significant cultural leadership. I will lean into any opportunities for getting our grads into competitive, culture-shaping jobs. However, there remains a wide range of potential jobs for NSA grads that I think would be fantastic opportunities to fulfill the NSA mission of cultural leadership. One significant reason that we recently added accreditation with the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities (NWCCU) was so that the NSA undergraduate degree could qualify our graduates to go on to medical school. We have also recently added the MDiv for pastoral training, a program for which I think NSA graduates are more qualified than just about anyone else. Our most recent NSA ad featured our graduates who have gone on to work in film production. I think the whole field of media is one for which the NSA education lays an excellent foundation. Oh, and I still want to find the NSA grads who are interested in going on into finance. There are a number of previous grads, as well as financial supporters of the school, who would love to help a fresh NSA grad into the industry of finance. All this is to say, I get why someone might be concerned that we are morphing into a prelaw program. But I can assure you that we are not. I am thrilled that some key opportunities have opened up for our grads in the world of law. But we are not and will not turn the NSA liberal arts education into anything other than a better version of itself. I hope that answers any questions that you might have had.

Did you know that the Milky Way is even milkier when viewed from the Southern Hemisphere? This is because from the southern side of our planet, we get a clearer, more direct view of the dense galactic core. Here’s a look at the Milky Way starting over the Southern Ocean (between Australia and Antarctica) from our @SpaceX Dragon window, complete with some aurora (Southern Lights) and fleeting Starlink satellites. Enjoy the view!

Who caused all the denominations?

Currently reading her new book. 30 pages in, she's defining terms, which is where so many folks go off the rails. 👍🏻