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School House Rights - Conversations with Mark Bauerlein (2.19.21)

First Things Podcast

First Things

Religion & Spirituality

4.6699 Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

On this episode, Jonathan O’Brien joins contributing editor Mark Bauerlein to discuss the lawsuit he is filing on behalf of his clients because of the coercive use of critical race theory in the classroom. If you would like to read the lawsuit or donate to their legal fund, please visit www.schoolhouserights.org.

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0:00.0

Hello there. This is Mark Bauerline with another conversation. Before we get to it, a word about one of our sponsors.

0:27.7

You may have seen a recent article in Inside Higher Ed.com that began, Wyoming Catholic College has a lot of

0:33.5

unusual things about it, each enough to merit a story in itself.

0:41.2

Wyoming Catholic is a conservative Catholic college that educates students in the great books and Catholic tradition.

0:43.1

It also teaches horsemanship and banned cell phones on campus.

0:46.5

I love that.

0:47.7

And it turned down federal funding.

0:49.9

President Glenn Arbery describes the mission this way.

0:53.1

This college is engaged in deep ways

0:55.1

with the agony of a culture that has lost its spiritual center. We're adventurous and poetic

1:00.9

and deeply Catholic. He likes to cite Dostoevsky in crime and punishment. Low ceilings

1:06.1

are bad for the soul. The ceilings rise at Wyoming Catholic, which is located in the foothills of the

1:12.2

Wind River Mountains, the curriculum centers in the Western tradition. Its Catholic identity

1:16.7

builds upon Thomas Aquinas and the Magisterium of the Catholic Church and engaging with God

1:21.6

in the wilderness. Find out more at Wyoming Catholic.edu. We have with us Jonathan O'Brien. He's an attorney in New York City,

1:29.1

and he has filed a lawsuit in the state of Nevada that I think first things readers, listeners,

1:36.6

ought to hear about. Welcome, Mr. O'Brien. It's nice to be here. I believe this is my first

1:42.0

podcast ever. Well, I'm going to try to make a good first

1:47.8

impression on you. Thank you. Let's go. Okay. Now, I have the document of the lawsuit in front of me

1:55.4

that I received a couple of weeks ago, but why don't you tell us exactly what laws have the defendants in this lawsuit broken?

2:03.4

And what contracts have they violated?

2:06.0

Well, that's a good question because everyone wants to get out of Pat and Pencil,

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