Weightlifting is essential to liberal education. By forcibly closing gyms these last six months, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer opposes excellence and moderation. Moreover, she violates citizens’ right to peaceful assembly. Whitmer should recant her edicts and re-open the gyms. If she will not, Hillsdale College should open them anyway. The elevation of the soul requires...
Michael Lucchese (“True beauty isn’t ‘sexy,’” Mar. 3) argued that the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition is “indecent.” His conclusion is right, but his analysis is incomplete. Like too many critics of American sexual dysfunction, Lucchese focuses on the vices of men. It is “high school boys” and “desperate, middle-aged men” who “gawk” at women as...
The $10 bill is no place for a woman. At least, not yet. Unfortunately, a female gracing the ten seems inevitable in light of our political class’s obsession with identity politics and victimization. When Treasury Secretary Jack Lew announced this summer that he was replacing Alexander Hamilton on the $10 bill with a yet-unnamed woman,...
Enough with politicians rolling out tone-deaf stump speeches and academics shilling their websites. This year’s commencement speaker should be someone with chutzpah. Someone with guts. This year’s speaker should be retired Marine Corps General James “Mad Dog” Mattis. The transition from the comfortable intellectualism of academia into the uncomfortable reality of the outside world promises...
Indiana Republican Gov. Mike Pence is a coward. In the face of liberal agitation, the man has bent over backward insisting the Indiana Religious Freedom Restoration Act would not allow for discrimination. “If I were presented a bill that legalized discrimination against any person or group,” he piously proclaimed, “I would veto it.” Therein lies...