The Long Arc Forward with Christopher Rufo

The college credential matters, because employers cannot give tests to candidates and K-12 diploma does prove a person is a capable worker. Fixing K-12 will reduce the need for colleges becoming remedial learning and testing centers.

I think that foreign students should be taxed. We want to make US schools more American an focused on serving the tax payers that support them.

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I'm replying, not to the main part of this episode, but to the opening. Would you rather be back in 1973? In many ways yes. It is my entire adult lifetime ago. Married two years, parents of our first child. We had practically nothing, but we didn't really care, AND, we weren't hounded by a constant barrage telling us we were failures. But most importantly, there was the spiritual aspect. Most media attention is paid to the boomer interest in esoteric spirituality but there was so much happening in christianity, the Jesus Revolution in California and across the world, and the outpouring of the Holy Spirit in mainstream churches, most especially in the Catholic Church. We were part of that charismatic renewal and lived for 14 years in a community devoted to living out the gospel 24/7. And it wasn't just us, there was a desire for a real experience of God. It seemed like there was a real openness to things that has disappeared. You could mention casually to someone that you attended a prayer meeting on Thursday night and they would ask where. Today if you did that you are looked at as some sort of freak. This atmosphere or spirit was full of optimism about the future that had no connection to politics or economics. Certainly those things are important but the spiritual is so much more important

Peter,

You and I are about the same age. We both grew up in upstate NY. We both moved West. BUT you actually worked for a Republican administration. Therefore I will grant you little slack for your historical error:

-Richard Nixon resigned in 1974, not 1973