The death of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez presents the country with an opportunity to reverse the economic and social policies its leader pursued incessantly. If last year’s surprisingly close presidential challenge by Henrique Radonski is any indication, Venezuela may be ready to try Adam Smith’s prescription of “peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice.”...
At 11:47 a.m. yesterday, Sen. Rand Paul began talking about the unconstitutionality of drone strikes. Twelve hours later, as we write, he hasn’t stopped speaking to the majestic Senate chamber. Decorous but insistent, Paul has managed to make the senate filibuster, something that usually looks pathetic, seem inspiring instead. The Senate rules are complex, but...
If the Boy Scouts of America upholds the ban on gay members in May, the organization will have violated the core of its mission statement: “to prepare young people to make ethical and moral choices over their lifetimes by instilling in them the values of the Scout Oath and Law.” The BSA should vote to...
You catch more flies with honey than with stale-cigar-smoke-scented-conservative-man-sweat. Rush Limbaugh smells nothing like honey, and Hillsdale College should stop advertising on his partisan show. He limits the college to an image that does not match what professors teach and students believe. Continuing to advertise on the show gives the school a polarizing public image,...
Out of the 273,996 American students that studied abroad this year, only 12 are from Hillsdale College. Less than 0.9 percent of Hillsdale’s 1,460 students go abroad annually. Hillsdale’s study abroad programs fall far behind the programs comparable schools offer. The limited scope, expensive costs, and frustrating void of structure in the college’s study abroad...