“Issues are important, yes, but issues come and go. America as an ideal is timeless.” Quote by Paul Kengor
“If our presidents, or potential presidents, don't know this or don't articulate [an America ideal], that's a blown opportunity. The president can teach as well as lead.” IfsKnowsWellsAmericaOpportunityPresidentTeachIdeals Author:Paul Kengor
“In part, it's almost surely a failure of modern education, whether K through 12 or higher education, or really both. Barack Obama went to Ivy League institutions like Columbia, which are reputed to be among America's top colleges. And yet, this very recent product of those American institutions is not publicly articulating an appreciation of the American founding or the founders and their vision for America.” AmericaVisionModernCollegeProductsHigherInstitutionsAppreciationBarackLeagueFoundersFoundingIvyHigher EducationColumbiaIvy LeagueArticulatingModern Education Author:Paul Kengor
“You would hope that the supposed best of American educational institutions would teach its students about America as an institution.” AmericaTeachStudentsInstitutionsEducationalEducational Institutions Author:Paul Kengor
“Many of these failures can be laid at the feet of the awful state of American higher education, and especially the way in which our secular universities have divorced their instruction from timeless truths like faith and freedom. Many of the professors at these places plainly don't respect the founders and, in particular, the religious foundation of the founders.” WayStatesReligiousFeetParticularHigherFoundationUniversityAwfulProfessorsInstructionFoundersSecularTimelessDivorcedHigher Education Author:Paul Kengor
“I believe that music is a force in itself. It is there and it needs an outlet, a medium. In a way, we are just the medium.” WayNeedsBelieveForceI BelieveMusic IsMediumsOutlets Author:Maynard James Keenan
“Colleges need learning, faith, and freedom. Each reinforces the others, each makes the others possible. For what are they without each other?” NeedsCollege Author:Paul Kengor
“[ Alexis de] Tocqueville said it in 1835, and it's as true today as it was then: 'Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. Religion is more needed in democratic societies than in any other.'” MaySaidTodayLibertyNeededDemocraticDespotismDemocratic SocietyAlexis Author:Paul Kengor
“Learning is a good thing, but unless it's tempered by faith and a love of freedom, it can be very dangerous indeed.” DangerousGood Things Author:Paul Kengor
“I've been to Vancouver every year for the last four years, since 2011 when I came out with Murs.” YearsLastsFourFour YearsVancouver Author:Ab-Soul