Are we seeing the revitalization of conservative civilization all over the world has been a massive backlash against globalization, its leftist leadership, and its anti-cultural liberal values, and it's just the beginning.

I'm Dr. Steve Turley. I believe the liberal globalist world is at its brink and a new conservative age is rising.

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Gang, what if I told you that the single greatest education in the world without any exaggeration is available to you right now to you and to your children, right this very second?

What if I told you that that education is also the single greatest antidote to the woken sanity that pervades our nation?

And what if I told you that that single greatest antidote to woken sanity is precisely the kind of education that all of our founding fathers received and gave to their children?

Well, that is what we're going to discover today with my dear friend and guest David Goodwin. David is a founding board member and was headmaster of the Ambrose School in Boise, Idaho, which I've had the honor of visiting and speaking at, and he is currently president of the Association of Classical Christian Schools.

He's the editor of the classical difference magazine. He has a new book out that you've got to get entitled battle for the American mind, uprooting a century of miseducation that you co offered it with Fox News's Pete Hegseth, he's been on Fox News, he's a talk with the Newt Gingrich on it, just came out in January, it's absolutely taking the educational world by storm.

So we're going to talk about that, the central role of education and culture and society, we're going to talk about what went wrong with our educational system and how classical Christian education offers us a faithful way back.

David, it's been far too long. I enjoyed our conversation before we started the recording. If you guys don't know, David and I have spent many, many hours in the Wii in the Wii hours of the night with scotch cigars and glorious conversation and my friend, it's been too long. It's great to see again.

Indeed it has. I don't know if your regular listeners know just how significant a role you play in the classical Christian world.

Oh, man, thank you for that. That's wonderful. Yeah, well, I really, really, as you know, I'm passionate about classical education. I was in it for 18 years.

A lot of people know my story of how I've gone to the channel full time, but my heart has never ever left classical education. My kids are still involved in it.

And I am passionate about getting everybody watching this involved with us. There will be some links underneath the video here that you can click on to find the local classical school to value self of David's work and congrats on that book, by the way, the battle for the American mind.

That's really, it's made its way up the charts as it were. Why don't you just give us a quick, you know, little praises of what motivated you to write the book and what it's about.

Well, you know, Stephen, many ways. I think you along with the handful of others that you, you know, we all have been hanging around with for many years.

I told this story in various ways and at various conferences over over a long time. And what I realized was that nobody had really recorded it in a way that the average person could just pick it up, read it and have an epiphany about the way education has changed.

And what opportunity there is in classical Christian education. So that was my original intent as I wrote the book originally.

But because I was trying to reach outside our circles and you know this, I know you've published books in a lot of different, many different of the classical press, you know, like classical academic press and what have you, but I was trying to get out into the broader audience and it's not easy to do that.

You know, education was a sleeper topic in 2019 when I was fishing this book around. And the prospect of an unknown author wasn't all that attractive to many of the publishers.

So the great story of this book was at the Lord's timing and Pete Hegseth coming along and saying, look, this is such an important story.

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