Jeffrey Beall

The implosion at Heritage is a big sign that woke Right populism is over. There is a demand to return to conservative values, first principles, and scholarship over soundbites. Ed Meese giving his blessing plus Cully Stimson and Hans von Spakovsky’s exit letter among many other greats leaving Heritage is an earthquake that will have huge repercussions. MAGA bros will claim it’s a return of the “establishment” but they fail to recognize that @AmericanFreedom already was populated by many of the greats from Trump’s own team, including @PTeller, Marc Short, among others. This is a very good direction for the movement, and I’m proud of all of these men and women I’ve admired and learned from for years standing up and drawing the line for first principles. Btw — Another major signal is that the 2028 GOP nomination is very much in play.

Brief thoughts on whether Christians should send their kids to public schools: 1. Many public schools in America are clearly not in a good place today (as stated in my essay) 2. Because of this, many Christians--including me!--have chosen not to send their children to them 3. In general terms, I would counsel Christians to weigh the costs of public school very, very carefully before sending kids to them 4. However, not all public schools are the same, and so I do see this as a possible option in some cases, especially where there is a strong local church that supports a Christian family 5. The Bible does not speak to the issue of public schools, so this is a gray area 6. A pastor may well feel compelled to give a gracious warning to his people about public schools; that's fair game 7. But wise pastors will do this with real care, humility, and deference to the individual believers' conscience 8. Godly pastors take pains not to bind the conscience of their people where Scripture does not explicitly speak; this is as much about a pastors' own self-control, wisdom, discipline of the tongue, humility, and love as it is about anything else 9. Different children sometimes do well in different environments; what works well for one child may not work for another, and there is no One Perfect Method by which to disciple children in the faith 10. Proverbs 22:6 is a wonderful principle, but it is in no way a guarantee that if you keep your kids at home all the time, they will become Christians; this is a (no doubt well-intended) misapplication of a biblical truth that has led to some real pain among Christian parents 11. Wise pastors help their people think well rather than force-feeding them what to think, for they know that the voice that every Christian needs to hear above all others is the voice of Jesus, not the voice of any fallible man, for Jesus and Jesus ALONE is Lord of the church and Lord of the conscience (Rev. 19:16) 12. This is non-negotiable: the unity of a given congregation should not be in any educational choice made by parents, nor in extrabiblical decrees issued without scriptural warrant from the pulpit; the unity of a given congregation should always and only be in the one true saving gospel of grace ****************** For more, please see my Substack essay: owenstrachan.substack.com/p/doug-wilson-…