Well over half of high school students have not read a single book in the last year. A good chunk of them have never read a book in their entire life.

Andrew Pudewa has spent thirty years fighting to reverse that trend. He is the founder of the Institute for Excellence in Writing and has taught tens of thousands of teachers and parents how to cultivate language in children.

The problem is simple. You cannot get something out of a brain that is not in there. And the linguistic input of children has collapsed because media is dumbed down and screens have fractured attention spans. Technology atrophies the skill it replaces.

Key Takeaways:

• The more screens in a classroom, the lower the reading, writing, and math skills

• Technology amplifies character so disorganized children become more disorganized

• Memory has been abandoned though it is essential for forming the mind

• Read to children at a level above their decoding skills to pull up vocabulary

• Follow CS Lewis's rule and read one old book for every new book

• Book recommendation: The Restoration of Christian Culture by John Senior

Andrew Pudewa

Founder & Director, Institute for Excellence in Writing

Dr. Johann D'Souza

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👇 When was the last time you finished a book?

MSNBC called him the second worst person in the world. Matt Kibbe took it as a compliment.Matt is president of Free the People and one of the leaders of the Tea Party movement. He just produced a docu-series called The Cover-Up about Anthony Fauci and gain of function research.

He believes Fauci will go to jail because Rand Paul now has subpoena power and Biden's pardon may be illegitimate.But Fauci was not the architect. Kibbe believes Fauci's real boss may be at the CIA, Homeland Security, or DOD. This was never about public health. It was a military intelligence style mad science experiment.

Key Takeaways:

• Fauci has two choices when subpoenaed: tell the truth or commit perjury

• Trump is not delivering on spending and is attacking Rand Paul instead of Lindsey Graham

• Politics is downstream of culture so storytelling matters more than statistics

• The Five Eyes countries locked down hardest, suggesting globalist coordination • To resist government oppression you do not need a majority, just brave people willing to speak

• Forever wars must end to defund the deep state and eliminate the debt

Matt Kibbe

President, Free the People

Dr. Johann D'Souza Clinical Psychologist & Host

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👇 Do you think Fauci will actually face justice?

Bible Man had a lightsaber and fought off theological doubts with canned answers you would find on a Hobby Lobby plaque.

Ryan Klopack sat in that performance as a fourth grader rolling his eyes thinking, I do not know if God is in this.

Then the Twin Towers fell. And he was exposed to inexplicable evil that could not be explained away with canned answers. He needed something with extraordinary gravity. Something real.

That same year, missionaries told their story of being kidnapped by Al Qaeda in Afghanistan, thrown into prison, and walking out free after a miraculous intervention.

Ryan had a mystical encounter with God that day. He felt the weight and the presence and the glory in a way he cannot explain. It was like encountering the sun.

That encounter set him on a path of stripping away the artificial and replacing it with the real. Classical education became his bridge to Catholicism. The Latin Mass became his home.

Key Takeaways:

• Arcadia Education helps Christian and classical schools flourish by handling the processes that burn leaders out

• 92% of people who left homelessness in Scottsdale came through their relationship-based ministry

• The core of their homeless outreach was seeing people as made in the image of God with no strings attached

• Bible Man and canned Christian answers cannot stand up to real evil

• The Latin Mass preserves the weight and holiness that a God that big demands

• We need to conform to reality, not construct our own values

Ryan Klopack

Director of Executive Search, Arcadia Education

Dr. Johann D'Souza

Clinical Psychologist & Host

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👇 What stripped away the artificial and led you to encounter the real?