Category: Opinions

Tuesday night, Syrian autocrat Bashar al-Assad flew to Moscow to visit Russian Vladimir Putin to show solidarity and express gratitude for Russia’s help in Syria, CNN reported. “Thank you for supporting Syria’s unity and independence,” Assad said. Assad’s rhetoric of unity and independence demonstrates his and Putin’s strategy of eliminating all moderate rebel factions, including...

Put the American Moses on the $10 bill. Harriet Tubman led her people out of bondage. She was a slave, a fugitive, an abolitionist, a spy, a suffragette, and one of America’s greatest women. Currency is a means for countries to celebrate their heroes and educate their citizens. America must remember Harriet Tubman better, and...

While America faced slavery in the 1860s, today the United States faces social corruption, economic loss, and international conflicts. Abraham Lincoln sought to bring back America’s founding principles as slavery tore the nation apart. Who can do that today? Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI). As the Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, Ryan has...

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,...

Welcome back, alumni. We undergraduates, still subject to the pressures of academia and avoiding the pressures of adulthood, look forward to receiving word from the outside world. Soon, graduated friends and teammates will return to us and we will get to see how life outside of Hillsdale is treating those in whose steps we now...