Congratulations to my good friend David Goodwin on his latest book: “Forging the American Mind” to be released nationally this Tuesday at our Turning Point Education’s Educators Summit in Lincolnshire IL. Thanks @goodwind67 for an advance copy. It is a must reading for any person concerned about the education of students today and how we can do so much better.

Thanks, and note that the follow-on book, Forging the American Mind releases this week! a.co/d/066buQOj

Reimagining Education in America | with David Goodwin rumble.com/v7b4ybs-reimagini…

Charlie's still a prophet like no other.

Sitting in Thursday AM for @stevegrubershow on Day Break, joined by Carson Holloway @ClaremontInst, @goodwind67, @kerpen, @stevegoreham, Michael Van Beek @MackinacCenter, more. Tune in 6-9a ET lansing730.com/listen-live/p… or stevegruber.com

Forging the American Mind just arrived @tpusaeducation for next week's release event. I'll be speaking in the Chicago area to their annual summit! @A_C_C_S

During the progressive take over of education in the last century, as @goodwind67 tells is, “Literacy became a substitute for the trivium, and it was a poor one.” (Forging the American Mind)

More stock for the Repairing The Ruins conference has arrived. @A_C_C_S

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Government schools “train servants of the state economy. Western classical education trains citizens with the tools of knowledge and virtue to self govern.” - @goodwind67 (Forging The American Mind)

“[Classical Christian Education] is built on the idea that training a person to have good judgement is more important than teaching him or her the right response in every situation, because you can never predict every situation, but you can prepare a person who is ready to face any situation.” - @goodwind67 (The Forging of the American Mind)

Alistair Begg RANTS about pastors growing beards and it is hilarious! 🤣🧔

Super excited to read this! Thanks @goodwind67 for sending me an advanced copy! Everyone should have this book on their radar! It releases June 16 on Amazon (and elsewhere I’m sure).

One of the unexpected blessings of homeschooling our daughter for a season, and spending so much time reading history has been discovering just how much education shapes culture. Not merely what children know. But how they learn to think. That is one of the reasons I’m looking forward to reading and reviewing Forging the American Mind: A Year-by-Year Guide for Classical Christian Education by @goodwind67, with a foreword by @PeteHegseth. The book releases June 16. For years, I’ve watched parents grow increasingly frustrated with an education system that seems more interested in producing ideological conformity than cultivating wisdom, virtue, and critical thinking. Whether one chooses public school, private school, homeschool, or some combination thereof, the underlying question remains the same: What is the purpose of education? Goodwin argues that education should be about far more than career preparation or test scores. It should be about forming the mind, developing character, and teaching students how to reason clearly in pursuit of truth. As someone who came to appreciate the Great Books tradition later in life, I find this particularly compelling. The ability to read carefully, think critically, understand history, engage ideas, and discern truth from falsehood has never been more important than it is today. The book also explores the tradition of Classical Christian Education—a movement that has grown rapidly across the country as parents seek alternatives grounded in a biblical worldview and the intellectual heritage of Western civilization. Whether you agree with every conclusion or not, the questions Goodwin raises strike me as worthy of serious consideration. What kind of citizens are we forming? What kind of culture are we building? And what happens when an entire generation is taught what to think rather than how to think? I’ll have a full review after I’ve completed the book, but based on the premise alone, this looks like a timely and important contribution to the ongoing conversation about faith, education, culture, and the future of the American republic. Publication date: June 16, 2026. Thank you to Theresa Dooley for providing an advance review copy.

We are a Christian nation. but not an "officially" Christian nation. We are MORE Christian than merely "officially" Christian, because out of Christian faith you get freedom -- including Religious Freedom. We don't FORCE our citizens to believe. We're not a theocracy.

The vision behind Turning Point Education began when Charlie Kirk recognized this simple truth: the fight for America’s future starts in the classroom long before college.

It’s imperative that we revert to STANDARD, not Daylight time, for two reasons, one of which you may have never considered. You know the first: solar noon is closest to 12 o’clock all year. That means an equal number of hours before and after noon each day. This also means earlier sunrises which are significantly better for establishing a healthy circadian rhythm. The second reason is that nearly ONE THIRD of US counties are in the wrong timezone. A significant swath of the country isn’t only an artificial hour ahead because of daylight time… but TWO HOURS ahead of true solar time. Year-round daylight time, especially without recalibrating time zones, would establish this error permanently, affecting millions of Americans. We should be letting the Sun dictate the day the way God made it. Arbitrary, artificial tampering would be worse for us all. Fix the time zones and affix standard time.

Two simple Truths: Jesus Christ died for our sins. America’s fallen died for our freedom. May we live worthy.

Special thanks to Chase Spears for this interview. And to Herzog for supporting his important work. What a great name for a war-fighting patriot!

Nothing will shape your worldview as much as simply reading how humans from the past thought. You realize very quickly that our time is a radical anomaly in human history.