Florida

I’m back in Florida this week. I flew in on Friday afternoon and I’ve been staying and hanging out with my brother since I got here. Thanks to Casey Hampton, a conservative student from Jacksonville University, who picked me up from the JAX airport and drove me to Gainesville, where the University of Florida is […]

On Sunday, October 15, my colleague Maggie Perry and I ventured to Steubenville, Ohio to meet with students at Franciscan University – Steubenville. If you follow my blog, you’ll remember I dubbed Franciscan the “best Catholic University in the nation” in my post on April 20, 2006. I still hold to that. And, this time, […]

On the weekend of October 13-14, I attended the Philadelphia Society’s regional meeting in Pittsburgh. I was there with about 5 other colleagues from ISI – all other young staffers. The old guard (Mark Henrie, Jeff Nelson, John Vella, Jeremy Beer, Chad Kifer) decided to skip out on this one it seems. But it was […]

After being in DC for a few days, I traveled back out west, not quite as far as Michigan and Indiana, but still about 4-5 hours west to the Pittsburgh area. On Thursday evening, October 12th, we held a “Get to Know ISI” soiree at Carnegie Mellon University. It was a very poor turnout – […]

Well, after spending some time in South Bend, Indiana… Kenneth and I traveled down to Indiana Wesleyan University and Ball State University. Both towns are situated in areas surrounded by corn fields. We could almost smell it. The students we met with at IWU seemed really motivated and were excited about ISI. When I asked […]

After we left Mecosta, Kenneth and I drove down to Indiana. On Sunday evening, October 1, we held a “Get to Know ISI” soiree at the University of Notre Dame. The Irish Rover, which is on ISI’s Collegiate Network, help set it up. About 35 students attended and they were treated to free pizza and […]

Here is a group photo inside the Kirk home at the conclusion of the ISI intellectual retreat at Piety Hill in Mecosta, Michigan. On Friday, September 29, we kicked off an intellectual weekend in Mecosta, Michigan at the home of Russell Kirk. Kenneth and I at ISI led another ISI intellectual retreat, featuring Annette Kirk, […]

On Thursday, Kenneth and I drove from Delaware to Michigan. It was about 10 hours to Ann Arbor, and while it was greuling, it went by fairly fast. Once we got there, we met with an ISI Campus Represenative and one of his friends, as well as two editors of The Michigan Review, which is […]

The Ralph McInerny Center for Thomistic Studies is offering a three-year program in philosophical studies that will provide a wide-ranging introduction to classical philosophy. The program consists of six courses over three years (during the fall and spring semesters), each course consisting of 6 or 7 two-hour sessions, including lectures and time for discussion. I […]