A proud product of public education, JOHN COLEMAN received his undergraduate degree in history from Western Connecticut State University. Alas, that was to be the end of his flattering academic titles. Unwilling to once again become a debt slave to usurers, his graduate studies were scotched at the half-way point. John wasted over a decade of his professional life attempting to establish a high school for a community who took neither themselves nor their worldview seriously. Burned by these unseemly experiences, on Holy Saturday of 2013 Apocatastasis Institute was founded.

The Institute primarily exists to protect the humanities in se, and to provide a haven for academics in a disintegrating professional field. The author of Hurt (2015), The Trotsky Train (2018), Excess Of Love (2024), and Pearls Before Swine (2024), John daily continues his work of restoring formal classroom learning in light of the proper personal, social, and political ends of a school.

In 2025 John won the Excellence In Education award from the Education 2.0 conference organization.

PRESENTATION
Hedging Their Bets: Ukraine As Prelude

DESCRIPTION
The war in Ukraine is not an end in itself. In this talk John Coleman will argue that the Russian Federation and NATO/the US are preparing for a larger, continental conflict, and that the present conflict is merely "spring training" for the real war to come. Special attention will be given to the study of historical cycles, and placing these geopolitical contingencies within this paradigm.