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Libertarianism: ‘a pre-political attitude’
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Libertarianism: ‘a pre-political attitude’

Nick Gillespie is the editor-in-chief of Reason.com and Reason TV, the online outlets of Reason, the nation’s foremost libertarian magazine. From 2000 to 2008, he served as Reason editor-in-chief, winning the 2005 Western Publications Association “Maggie” Award for Best Political Magazine. The Daily Beast named Gillespie one of “The Right’s Top 25 Journalists,” calling him...

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Book review: ‘The End of Men: and the Rise of Women’

The damn loser men in our lives can’t seem to find a job, but there are too few female executives at Google. This is just one of the many inconsistencies that fill Hanna Rosin’s maddeningly anecdotal new book “The End of Men and the Rise of Women.” The well-written, interesting exploration of the changes in...

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President Obama’s inaction fuels rising gas prices

President Barack Obama said in his State of the Union address last week that it’s time to “free our families and businesses from the painful spikes in gas prices we’ve put up with for far too long.” But the pain persists. Gas prices have risen for 32 consecutive days, an increase totaling 43 cents per...

The Lost Library of Conservative Thought
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The Lost Library of Conservative Thought

As students in American Heritage class discuss political theorist Russell Kirk’s essay in their course readers, the author’s personal books sit perched above them in Lane Hall. More than 10,000 volumes are packed away in boxes on the locked fourth floor. Placed in storage during library renovations more than a decade ago, the books are...

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Moreno bridges campus and capital

Paul Moreno, associate professor of history, sits behind a desk full of papers in the Delp Hall office he’s called his for more than 10 years and looks as though he never moved away from Hillsdale. At-ease and surrounded by shelves stuffed with books on labor union history, Moreno describes the transition into his new...