Simon Olech

Contributor @collegefix. Published in @WSJ, @realdailywire, @dcexaminer, @crisismag, @newguardpress, @campusreform, @yaf 🇻🇦🇺🇸

[New Guard Press @newguardpress]

Congratulations to @thesimonolech for being named a finalist for the @collegiatenet commentary award!

Simon went to a small town in Washington State and talked to locals on the changing dynamics in the town in the wake of COVID.

"When work went online, many wealthy families moved into Winthrop from places like Seattle. This gradually changed the social landscape of Winthrop in various ways."

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

DSA = Destroying Society Altogether

[Jack Posobiec @JackPosobiec]

How is it that some groups are able to assimilate to America overnight and others take decades and never do?

[CatholicVote @CatholicVote]

Love this idea.

Florida gubernatorial candidate James Fishback says he would shut down every remaining abortion clinic in the state and replace them with crisis pregnancy centers if elected in 2026.

[Michael Knowles @michaeljknowles]

The most arresting aspect of the body cam footage is the realization that Henry Nowak actually was who the Left tried to make George Floyd out to be. They uttered the same dying words. The phenomenon was real, but the details were precisely inverted.

[Ana Kasparian @AnaKasparian]

The idea that we live in a democracy is laughable.

[Adrian Vermeule @Vermeullarmine]

A fascinating era in which the prevailing secular standards of legitimacy have been largely discredited, so that political and social actors increasingly turn to the only remaining institution widely perceived to have moral weight — the Church — and start to argue and act within the Church’s framework. (But enough about the 8th century).

[Catholics for Catholics 🇺🇲 @CforCatholics]

A Scottish boy stood firm and refused to kneel and pray while his Scouts group visited a Muslim mosque.

Well done to this boy's parents. We Catholics must be steadfast in our faith.

[G. K. Chesterton @GKCdaily]

A moral standard must remain the same or it is not a moral standard.

[Classic Learning Test @CLT_Exam]

For most of history, education was about forming a human being.

Students studied logic to think clearly, rhetoric to speak persuasively, grammar to write precisely, history to understand the world they inherited, languages to access great minds in the original, and philosophy to wrestle with truth, virtue, and the good life.

Then, in less than a century, everything changed.

[Michael Knowles @michaeljknowles]

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Archduke @EduardHabsburg reveals location of the lone pine tree ‘neath which his love awaits him

[Classic Learning Test @CLT_Exam]

You could spend a lifetime with:

Homer for courage
Plato for thought
Aristotle for reason
Augustine for the soul
Dante for imagination
Shakespeare for human nature

And still not finish learning.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

No nation, no society, and no international order can call itself just and humane if it measures its success solely by power or prosperity while neglecting those who live at the margins. Indeed, Christ’s love for the least and the forgotten compels us to reject every form of selfishness that leaves the poor and the vulnerable invisible.

[Classic Learning Test @CLT_Exam]

A proper education once meant:

— Reading difficult books
— Writing long essays
— Learning history
— Studying philosophy
— Training memory
— Arguing clearly

Now it means:

— Career prep
— Standardized testing
— Group projects
— Slide decks
— Credential collection

Somewhere along the way, education became workforce training.

[Simon Olech @thesimonolech]

AI and Data Centers are a hot topic on college campuses right now, so I went to the University of Washington in Seattle to ask students some questions. Check it out ⁦@CollegeFix⁩ https://t.co/u4ToXJ0tib

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Fair expectations

[Thomas Massie for Congress @MassieforKY]

@realDonaldTrump Is this the one?

[Trevor Tomesh ☕ @realDrTT]

This is the sort of thing that we should be teaching at University.

[Theo Von @TheoVon]

Lets gooo @RepThomasMassie

[Athenaeum Book Club @athenaeumbc]

Did you know that fewer than half of US adults read a book last year?

In our academic system, it is normal to go from kindergarten to PhD without reading a single page of Homer, Plato, Augustine, Dante, or Milton.

In any other age, such a person would not be considered educated at all.

Since the state refuses to teach the Great Books of Western Civilization, we've started an independent group to the study them together. To preserve a culture, you must continually study the books and ideas that created it.

Below are just some of the texts on our reading list!

If this sounds like something you'd like to be part of, please join our group. We read a new classic text approx. every month and meet biweekly to discuss. We are studying the great works in dialogue with each other.

Most of what we put out is free, but to support our efforts, please consider a paid subscription. It makes a huge difference to the time and resources we can dedicate to this project.

We are entirely independent, funded only by the incredible members of this community.

Paid members get:
- Live book club discussions (biweekly)
- Essays to guide you through the books we're reading
- Access to the community chat room
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- Ability to vote on what we read next...

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