Fr. Kevin Drew: When God Orders Us to Fight
October 22, 2025Founder’s Quote
October 22, 2025
Ellie Gardey Holmes is Reporter and Associate Editor at The American Spectator. She is the author of Newsom Unleashed: The Progressive Lust for Unbridled Power. She is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame, where she studied political science, philosophy, and journalism. …
Things could have been quite different had former Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe not uttered these damning words during his gubernatorial debate with now Governor Glenn Youngkin: “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.”
Those words came on Sept. 28, 2021, with just weeks to go before the election. The arrogant words flipped all momentum in Youngkin’s favor at a time when many were frustrated with the public school system, and when Youngkin, with his usual earnestness and affable persona, was promising reform. Most public schools in the state had recently been shuttered for an entire year due to COVID, and parents had been made aware through Zoom classes of the poor quality of the education their children were receiving, as well as the extent to which it was ideologically infected. Youngkin, in describing the grim situation at The American Spectator’s annual gala last week, said, “We saw parents pushed out of their children’s lives and told that a quality education was a 12-inch screen.” …
