Dissident Mama, episode 16 - W.C. Newsom

08/28/20 • 62 min

Episode 16 features W.C. Newsom, who is the creator of The Christendom Curriculum. If you recall, Newsom was my very first guest on the show. He and his family tirelessly work to advocate for truly conservative and traditional homeschooling - a field of battle that leftists are taking a bit more of everyday. But Newsom always shows up for the fight. He returns to give us some updates about the growth of his curriculum, as well as the predictable woke pushback to his educational materials, which he describes as “pro-West, anti-social justice, anti-multicultural, and anti-globalist.”

I also get Newsom’s expert take on a few issues that may seem minor but are what I see as increasing and powerful white-guilt chinks in the armor of non-PC home education. Am I overreacting? Possibly. Or am I just seeing the puritanical-progressive writing on the wall. We’ll try to sort some of that out.

Newsom is a homeschool dad to seven children, husband of 27 years, proud Southerner, and Reformed Christian. He’s a leftism resistor, a brilliant and bold warrior for faith, family, and tradition, and an unReconstructed compatriot with whom I’m proud to be in the trenches.

Mentioned in our discussion are the HSLDA’s essay “Homeschooling: Bridging the academic achievement gap” and Newsom’s recent Battle Paper “Monument desecration and the 5th Commandment” published at Identity Dixie. Some of my related essays are “The antidote for the therapeutic state,” “Puritans, part 5: Redeeming the time,” and “Homeschooling is counter to progressive values,” and “Totalitarians, t-shirts, and tirades, oh my!”

Newsom has a professional background in writing, editing, and creating training materials. He’s written or contributed to 10 books, including “The Nicholas Book: A Legend of Santa Claus,” “Polycarp: The Crown of Fire,” and "Talking of Dragons: The Children's Books of J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis,” and created class sessions on Shakespeare, Tennyson, Hemingway, and others for another popular Western Civilization homeschool curriculum.

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Dissident Mama, episode 15 – José Niño

Episode 15 features José Niño, a brilliant young thinker who doesn’t pull punches. The policy analyst and writer has more than a decade of experience as a political operative, working with major organizations on a host of political issues, from gun rights to foreign policy. Niño’s articles have been featured at influential outlets, such as Ammo.com, Gunpowder Magazine, The Mises Institute, Business Insider, InfoWars, and Zero Hedge. You can also read his provocative essays at his blog JoseAlNino.com, where you can also purchase his two e-books “The 10 Myths of Gun Control” and “How Socialism Destroyed Venezuela.”

Niño and I chat about his fascinating bio, as well as the hot topics of an immigration moratorium, color revolutions abroad, cultural Marxism here at home, US military hegemony, José’s Laws, and how best to build dissident resistance in order to battle the twin scourges of domestic anarcho-tyranny and “globohomo fuckery.”

Mentioned in our discussion are two of Niño’s most recent pieces: “With the US Rocked by a Pandemic, It’s Time to Leave Afghanistan” at AntiWar.com and “Here’s How the GOP Can Make Inroads With Hispanics: Pursue a National Populist Agenda and Avoid Cringe-Inducing Hispandering” at American Greatness.

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Dissident Mama, episode 17 - Dann Reid

Welcome of the DM podcast, episode #17. Today our guest is Dann Reid, who is the creator of the Culinary Libertarian blog and podcast. Reid says his goal is to help teach and share information on baking, cooking, ingredients, “general food stuff, and policy which is relevant to liberty.” With his blog, he hopes to “make cooking and baking possible and take the scary away” while encouraging newbies to embrace “reasonable expectations to start with.” And with his podcast, Reid tackles interesting topics with wide-ranging guests from both the liberty movement and culinary worlds.