The David Network

I am pleased to have spoken at their yearly conference yesterday.  If I understand them correctly (here is their web site), it is for elite college students — grad and undergrad — at Harvard, MIT, Stanford and the rest of the Ivies.  No other schools.  The group is explicitly religious (across religions and denominations) and also right-leaning and explicitly elitist.  [Correction: Unlike as previously stated, Robert George of Princeton does not have a leadership role in the group, though he has a speaker role. The Network is run by volunteers.]

Here is the thing — there were about five hundred people at the event.  That shocked me.  Overall the energy and talent levels in the rooms seemed high.

The group is four years old, and I had never heard of them before, so I am passing this information along.  As I’ve said in the past, the most important thinkers of the future will be religious thinkers (and I’m not one of them).  Today I am upping my “p” on that prediction.

Addendum: My comments were on higher education, and they were more optimistic than what the other panel members expressed.  There is a good chance they will put it on-line.