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Here are several helpful hints on how to be unhelpful while giving career advice to young men. benmerkle.substack.com/p/how…

So first, of all, NSA was rated as Idaho’s top national liberal arts college and that’s pretty cool. But you really ought to read this breakdown on EdNews of how Idaho’s colleges performed. The author seems incapable of mentioning NSA without adding his ideological content warnings. This cracks me up. idahoednews.org/news/a-natio…

The NSA rugby team had a great start to their season this past weekend at a tournament in Boise. Lost to BSU (10-24) and then beat Idaho State (31-5). Well done to the Blues.

On the Radicalization of Young Christian Men | Will Spencer | NSA Disputatio In this New Saint Andrews College Disputatio address, @willspencer examines how fatherlessness, shame, isolation, and online communities can leave young men vulnerable to movements that offer belonging and purpose through resentment. He traces what he refers to as the “blame ladder”: a descent from personal grievance into conspiracy theories, antisemitism, and white nationalism. Spencer argues that these ideas can borrow the language of Christian faith while turning men away from repentance, responsibility, and love of neighbor. Against the promise of a political war band, he sets the harder path of Christian sonship: accepting correction, bearing one’s cross, and serving the Father who calls men his heirs. The address is followed by a candid Disputatio exchange on the reach of these movements, the danger of broad accusations, and how Christians can respond with courage to friends drawn into them. For more information on New Saint Andrews, go to nsa.edu

Becoming Immune to Being Called a Nazi If you are a young conservative, Christian man, you will be called a nazi. It doesn’t matter how much you protest or how much you can show that the slur can’t possibly be accurate, you will be called a nazi. You will be called a racist. You will be called antisemitic. And, given their inevitability, you need to know how to be unfazed by these accusations. There are two basic approaches to growing an immunity to these slurs. One is to make the slurs small and one is to make God big. This first approach is the approach that is being advocated by too many men on the right. It is an approach that makes fleshly sense. But in the end will warp and shrivel your soul. The second approach is the way that Jesus teaches. It will immunize you against the slanders, while strengthening your soul. The first way looks like this – they are going to call you a nazi? Fine. Make that accusation small. Make it not a big deal to be called a nazi. Get yourself comfortable with that branding. Were the nazis really all that bad in the first place? Maybe Hitler had some good things to say? Immunize yourself to the slur by trying the slur on yourself until it becomes no big deal. Tell jokes about niggers and jews. You grow comfortable with the accusation so that when they hurl it at you they are just throwing brer rabbit into the briar patch. This approach is appealing because it has a fleshly sophistication to it. It is a sort of rhetorical jujitsu, whereby you roll with their attack and remove all of its sting. It is also kind of fun because you get to laugh all the way through it. Brer Rabbit laughs the hardest when he is sitting in his briar patch. But, in the end, this approach is deeply unhealthy. It makes you take something that is actually sinful and disgusting and you are willingly smearing it all over yourself in what you think is an act of defiance. And while you feel like you have the upper hand in the argument, you have actually given your opponent control over you because you are allowing him to call the shots for you. For instance, let’s say you are determined to always do the opposite of what I tell you to do. Then you might think that you are independent of me because you are defying me. But in reality every decision you make is now contingent on what I say. You do nothing independent of me. You have to wait until I speak to know what to do. In reality, I have become your master. So you can try to make the sin small or you can try to make God big. Now when I say try to make God big, of course God’s infinitude is independent of anything we do. What I mean is, you make him big in your mind. You make his concerns, his judgments, his determinations all the largest concerns in your mind. This is a strategy for making your heart obedient. You make other things small by holding them in comparison to him. Jesus taught, “If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple,” (Luke 14:26). This is that ordo amoris that our Vice President got into trouble for referencing. Our loves, our loyalties are all meant to be properly ordered. And at the top of that chain of well-ordered loves is God himself, to whom all of our love and loyalty is owed. And once you have that straight in your head, you are better equipped to deal with the taunts of an enemy. “Therefore do not fear them. For there is nothing covered that will not be revealed, and hidden that will not be known,” (Mat 10:26). You realize that one day you will stand before the triune God of the Bible. And when you see, with the eye of faith, that day of judgment coming, it makes the condemnations of others seem trivial. “He who loves his life will lose it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life,” (John 12:25). This was the confidence that Paul steeled himself with as he went to face great opposition. “Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ,” (Phi. 3:8). When you do this, when make your main concern the judgment of God, then you give control over your judgments, not to your enemy, but rather to God himself. They call you a racist and you don’t care. Not because you have embraced racism in a twisted attempt to defang the accusation. But rather because you legitimately don’t care what that guy calls you. You continue to reject racism, not because you our cowering before the accusations of the left, but rather because you don’t want that filth on your hands when you stand before the triune God at the final judgment. Make the accusations small by making God big.

The Erick Erickson article that is making the rounds points to a phenomenon that is on the right and is worth opposing. However, what he does is sloppy and does more harm than good. The neo-nazi, antisemitic, white nationalists do exist. But they are mostly all in their parents’ basements watching porn and other feral corners of the internet. To the extent that they make any contribution to the broader public it is in the comments section of someone else’s social media feed. Erickson points at a real subculture but then he goes on to name organizations and men that have nothing to do with that world. For instance, I know Nick Solheim and American Moment. He is not a white-nationalist fantasizer, but rather an insanely productive American patriot. He is none of the things that Erickson alleges in that article. Multiple NSA grads have left the college and gone on to work under him at American Moment, grads that I remain proud of for their hard work to serve our nation. Other men in that list, like Scott Yenor and Timon Cline, are men that we have had on the stage at NSA and that I would be proud to have back. Casually throwing the Nazi slur at men like this only further deafens the hearing of the young men that we are trying to reach and makes them more vulnerable to the actually unhelpful voices that are calling to them, not to DC, but back into their parents’ basements.

wng.org/sift/new-saint-andre… A good write up on our case against the city.

Secretary McMahon @EDSecMcMahon, asked every college president in America to answer seven questions about admissions, free debate, affordability, and rigor. @PresidentNSA, Ben Merkle, answered all seven. Read New Saint Andrews College’s full response: nsa.edu/president/call-to-ac…