Trump’s indictment was good. Courtesy | Wikimedia Commons. When a Manhattan grand jury indicted former President Donald Trump, many right-wing news outlets argued the indictment was a purely political attempt to harm his chances in the 2024 presidential race and not based in fact or law. Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene compared the indictment to...
Almost 60% of Hillsdale faculty, staff, and students said they favor Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis over former President Donald Trump for the 2024 GOP nomination, according to a Collegian survey. Of those surveyed, only a quarter said they would choose Trump. Trump announced his third presidential campaign from his home in Palm Beach, Florida on...
“Entry into a country by welfare cases, criminals, terrorists, enemy agents, or socialists and others sympathetic to tyrannical systems of government is never appropriate,” said Charles Steele, chairman of economics, business, and accounting, associate professor of economics, and Herman A. and Suzanne S. Dettwiler chair in economics. The southern border is projected to see as...
Noam Chomsky is a radical leftist, but he taught me more about Donald Trump than any other public intellectual. In his 1988 work, “Manufacturing Consent,” the political activist, philosopher, and linguist described how elites manipulate public opinion — and in doing so, he anticipated the fall of Trump. Chomsky writes that manufacturing consent is the...
America is trying to redefine what conservatism is going to be, Professor of Politics and Director of American Studies Kevin Portteus said at the “Conservatism after Trump” forum sponsored by Young Americans for Freedom on Feb. 24. The event on Wednesday featured Portteus and Professor of History and Dean of Social Sciences Paul Moreno, who...