Reflections

10 years. It has been 10 years since I graduated from St. Thomas Aquinas High School in Fort Lauderdale, FL. Oh how the time flies. I was reflecting on all the things I’ve done since high school. It’s too much to list in this entry, but it’s a lot. High school almost seems like another […]

I returned to Florida on Friday, August 11 and spent a week with my family and some friends. Here’s some quick highlights: – played tennis with my dad and one of my brothers – ate lots of good home cookin’ – thanks mom! – got together with my friend Jacqui from FAU and she told […]

So, we got to Boulder on the evening of August 3rd. Enza and I came there to meet up with our other colleagues from ISI’s Jack Miller Center for the Teaching of America’s Founding Principles. It’s a very new program that first kicked off last year with one summer institute. The “summer institutes” are 2-week […]

On Thursday, August 3 – my colleague Enza and I drove from Big Sky, Montana to Boulder, Colorado. In total – an 11 hour drive. Enza did most of it. She took the first 8 hours, making the last 3 seem pretty easy for me. We drove through some wide open spaces, with mountain ranges […]

On Sunday, July 30, we had an off-day between the two honors program conferences. After mass and breakfast, I was able to journey to and through our nation’s first national park, Yellowstone with my colleagues Enza and Judy. Yellowstone is certainly an interesting place. As land set aside for enjoying, it contains the elements of […]

On Thursday, I drove about 6 hours from Utah, through Idaho, and finally ended up in Big Sky, Montana, where the ISI Honors Program is taking place. Week 1 is almost over. I came up in the middle of it, to give a talk to the 25 honors fellows that are here this week to […]

I flew into Salt Lake City, Utah on Wednesday. I had a few hours to walk around the city. Very clean, very nice, but smaller than I thought. I went down to “Temple Square” where the major Mormon Temple is located. Only Mormons are allowed in. It’s a very pious tradition, I guess you could […]

Julia Seymour of Accuracy in Academia wrote about the first “Conservatism on Tap” event at the Brickskeller on July 12th for Campus Report Online. Get social with us!

On Wednesday night, our recently formed ISI Young Alumni Association in DC held their first major event, “Conservatism on Tap.” This will be a monthly series, supported by ISI, to bring young conservatives together in DC in a social setting. The venue for the talk was the Brickskeller, which is one of the coolest, most […]

Last night, 130 students and DC area interns attended the ISI summer lecture with historian George Nash at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C. Nash spoke on the topic, “The Uneasy Future of American Conservatism.” He spoke more about the history and only dived a little bit into the future. But, that was what the […]