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Monday Morning Memo

We can’t have a real discussion about education in America
until you have seen The Breakfast Club and Ferris Beuller’s Day Off.
The scene below (from Ferris Beuller,) ends with Cameron looking
deeply into a painting by Georges Seurat called, “Sunday Afternoon
on the Island of La Grande Jatte
.” Here’s what director John Hughes
said about that scene when asked out it later.

“The closer he looks at the child, the less he sees. But the more he
looks, there’s nothing there. I think he fears that the more you look at
him the less you see. There isn’t anything there. That’s him.”

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Random Quote:

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I’m always interested in a good conversion story.

Whittaker Chambers found God by studying his baby’s ear.

My friend Catherine Bly Cox (AKA much better half of Charles), had a somewhat similar epiphany. When her first child, Anna, was born, Cathy realized that she ‘loved her more than evolution required.’

Former communist David Horowitz famously realized that he was on the wrong team when he became convinced that the Black Panthers murdered his friend Betty Van Patter.

Cat Stevens became a Muslim because God saved him from drowning.

I’ve been looking for a similar Damascene moment for J.D. Vance, who once believed that Donald Trump was ‘cultural heroin’ and possibly ‘America’s Hitler,’ for his remarkable conversion to Trumpism.

“

- Jonah Goldberg, Oct. 22, 2025

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