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How can conservatives recover from Trump?
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How can conservatives recover from Trump?

We elected a man with the soul of a tyrant. Donald Trump has consistently shown it throughout his public record. His personal life is repugnant. He has behaved with total dishonor throughout this entire campaign. He has used his fortune to move the levers of power to crush ordinary Americans and accumulate even more wealth....

The silent majority has spoken
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The silent majority has spoken

The pundits were wrong. The pollsters were definitely wrong. Remember Nate Silver’s infallible one chance in three? Wrong. Or Larry Sabato’s 322 electoral college victory for Clinton? Wrong. They were all wrong: the media, the analysts, and most importantly, the ever so smug political elite. As the election kicked off with meaningful statistics in the...

Donald J. Trump wins
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Donald J. Trump wins

Donald J. Trump was elected the 45th president of the United States Tuesday, according to The Associated Press and numerous other media outlets that declared him the victor at 2:31 a.m. Wednesday. After a historic presidential race, Hillsdale College students and faculty expressed surprise over the Republican candidate’s victory and uncertainty for what the future...

Brother Leibowitz Revisited
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Brother Leibowitz Revisited

  After World War II, U.S. Army Airman Walter M. Miller, Jr., feared that the world would explode. In his novel, it already had. “A Canticle for Leibowitz,” Miller’s only novel, was published in 1959 amid fears of nuclear holocaust. Today, this classic work of science fiction brings us face to face with the darker...