Their endowment is only around $125M.

I had not considered that Western Civilization was already in the post-Dark Ages position of re-establishing Civilization. A useful insight, and thank you. This does illustrate the uneven nature of societal transition, in this case, a Fall of Empire. The United States is large enough that the various stages of Fall are contemporaneous: Some areas little affected to this point, some places declining fast (any West Coast city), and others virtually uninhabitable (many large US cities).

I would mark this transition as different than other social upheavals in US history on the observation that previous crisis were faced as a more-or-less united people. Even during the social upheavals of the 1960’s and ’70’s, the message from the disaffected was for inclusion in American society, not to be separated from it, as is the message now.

All: It isn’t just institutions that were poisoned by the addiction to government money. The American people themselves post-World War II eagerly accepted the government dole, and thus put themselves into slavery.

We must always remember that institutions are made of people, and the people are the ones who make the decisions. The actions of academia and other institutions in the past half century to accept government handouts merely reflected the desires of the American people in general.

To our great sorrow and ultimate failure.

Orson: I might very well reference your comment here in my essay tomorrow. What you say is exactly right, and something I have been advocating for years, all to no avail. We are about to find out if anything has changed, and I will discuss this tomorrow.

Strategic solutions can only be advanced when the Left’s menace is correctly understood.

To my mind, this means grasping that the Left imposes Anarcho-Tyranny upon us. This paradoxical label aims to describe how the Left has mutilated the Rule of Law into a deliberately Unequal exercise. On the one hand, Antifa — the Left’s Black Shirts — is given lassitude and toleration to riot and arson cities and attack the police. On the other hand, innocents who follow the law are persecuted like victims of the Spanish Inquisition, such as the J6 “defendants.”

Thus Unequal application and enforcement of “Law,” vitiating the Equal Protection Clause, means fair play cannot be allowed to work.

What to do? Law-breaking of the most obvious sort must be enforced at the lowest and most individualistic level. Start with the so-calked Red States. Take seriously application of Constitutional Concealed Carry laws. Protect and enhance them so that they are pushed into “Blue” cities. Let no observed pilfering go unpunished— or even, on the spit restitution made, under the draw of arms, as needed.

The Far Left will scream it’s genuflecting insults and invective. Racist! White supremacy! And so on. But the people will respect this new boldness and bravery. Public confidence in the restored Old Order will grow.

The consequences will prove decisive and salutary.

There’s more thinking on Anarcho-Tyranny around. I’m studying what’s useful in the available literature. My point is that from consolidated Red States, “Blue” lawless areas can see control and order retuned. From positions of strength, we can proceed outward into re-civilizing enemy territory.

Belmont Abbey College is poised to achieve a parallel re-civilizung mission. Let not our exemplars be neglected and go without imitation. Rather, repeat and improve and create icons of rectitude— paragons to inspire and emulate.

In doing so they made themselves pawns.

The swamp figured out that getting folks dependent on federal money as a gateway drug allowed them to sink their claws into everything.

No need for laws to ram thing down their when people and orgs willingly come to the trough and feed.

Shall we choose another front, or another non front, or …. ?

wayne: The college makes it clear that this is only the first step in getting off the government dole. They appear to recognize that $55 million won’t be enough, but it will help them gauge if the Catholic community is serious about its religious beliefs.