Category: Opinions

In his well-crafted and rhetorically- packed opinion (“John Boehner can get the job done,” Jan. 23), Michael Lucchese argued that, among other things, Tea Partiers and moderate Republicans have the same goals, the actions of Tea Party members are obstructive and unnecessary, and that Tea Partiers are foolish to believe that there is no difference...

It was Sept. 8, 1925. Members of the Ku Klux Klan gathered outside the home of Dr. Ossian Sweet, a black physician who had moved into an all-white neighborhood in Detroit. The mob threw rocks, and eventually, shots were fired. At the end, a Klan member lay dead and another wounded. Sweet was tried, found...

What do Frederick Douglass, Thomas Jefferson, John Milton, Jonathan Swift, George Orwell, Ronald Reagan, and Peggy Noonan have in common? Aside from all achieving considerable renown, each began in journalism. Attendees of this week’s CCA on “American Journalism, Yesterday & Today” heard much about  journalism: How its Founding Era character both contrasts and compares with...

“What gets you up in the morning, Val?” my friend asked when we were out for coffee this break. I confess my mind first went to my alarm clock. “As in, what do you live for? What gets you excited for life?” my friend clarified when I paused a little too long. Ah. One of...

Last week, the Collegian noted the death and honored the life of Harry Jaffa, an influential political philosopher and cherished intellectual hero of Hillsdale College. Mike Sabo’s piece (“Harry Jaffa redefined political philosophy,” Jan. 23), recounted Sabo’s own first encounter with Jaffa’s project: “Jaffa likened attending his first classes with Leo Strauss to Saul being...