Oct 7, 2026 · 57 min · 16 segments
The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – At a time when young Americans are expressing positive impressions of socialism in record numbers, it is more important than ever for students to learn and…
Dean BowenHost
The Department of Education here, this is just It's just the other day, the Department of Education has issued a letter to every single public school administrator in the country, urging schools to strengthen their classroom instruction on the historical impacts and human toll of communism and socialism, rather than promoting it.
In the letter that was issued just a couple days ago, last week, this is what Lyndon McMahon said, students should be able to compare the true history of socialism's violent ideology, pervasive atrocities, and spectacular failures with the contrasting success of the constitutional republic designed by America's founders.
And unfortunately, as it stands right now, our young people are not able to compare and contrast the violence of socialism to the liberty and the success of constitutional republicanism.
They have no idea that we operate as a constitutional republic because they're told that we're a democracy.
But Linda McMahon is attempting to turn the tide here, and so we give her our full support to this end.
It's a commemoration that was instituted in 2017 by the first Trump administration, Trump 1.0. And the point of it is to honor the more than 100 million victims of communist and socialist regimes.
Trump has... taking it upon himself, upon his administration, to finish the job of destroying the evil empire.
And that belief system, unfortunately, has infiltrated American education, which has then allowed it to infiltrate American politics.
In the letter, she further said that students who understand the history of socialism and communism know that collectivization, centralized economic planning, political coercion, and suppression of dissent lead to untold human suffering.
This leads into the conversation I've been having now for several weeks, basically describing that a student who graduates and receives a classical education, this student understands this.
This student understands that a centralized economic planning apparatus, communism, and this political coercion and suppression of dissent lead to untold human sufferings.
The Department of Education here, this is just It's just the other day, the Department of Education has issued a letter to every single public school administrator in the country, urging schools to strengthen their classroom instruction on the historical impacts and human toll of communism and socialism, rather than promoting it.
In the letter that was issued just a couple days ago, last week, this is what Lyndon McMahon said, students should be able to compare the true history of socialism's violent ideology, pervasive atrocities, and spectacular failures with the contrasting success of the constitutional republic designed by America's founders.
And unfortunately, as it stands right now, our young people are not able to compare and contrast the violence of socialism to the liberty and the success of constitutional republicanism.
They have no idea that we operate as a constitutional republic because they're told that we're a democracy.
But Linda McMahon is attempting to turn the tide here, and so we give her our full support to this end.
It's a commemoration that was instituted in 2017 by the first Trump administration, Trump 1.0. And the point of it is to honor the more than 100 million victims of communist and socialist regimes.
Trump has... taking it upon himself, upon his administration, to finish the job of destroying the evil empire.
And that belief system, unfortunately, has infiltrated American education, which has then allowed it to infiltrate American politics.
In the letter, she further said that students who understand the history of socialism and communism know that collectivization, centralized economic planning, political coercion, and suppression of dissent lead to untold human suffering.
This leads into the conversation I've been having now for several weeks, basically describing that a student who graduates and receives a classical education, this student understands this.
This student understands that a centralized economic planning apparatus, communism, and this political coercion and suppression of dissent lead to untold human sufferings.
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