The Wall Street Journal did not include Hillsdale College in its new Best Colleges rankings, following a years-long practice of ignoring the school because it does not accept federal funding. “It doesn’t matter one bit because nobody is going to choose or not choose Hillsdale College based on what the Wall Street Journal rankings say,”...
Four Hillsdale College economics professors signed a statement denouncing the Biden Administration’s Build Back Better agenda featured in the Wall Street Journal on March 1. Hillsdale College Chairman of Economics, Business, and Accounting Charles Steele, Professor of Economics Ivan Pongracic, Associate Professor of Economics Michael Clark, and Director of Economics Gary Wolfram signed the statement...
Barton Swaim is an editorial writer and book reviewer at the Wall Street Journal. His time as a speechwriter for South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford is the subject of his memoir “The Speechwriter: A Short Education in Politics.” He is this semester’s Eugene C. Pulliam Distinguished Visiting Fellow in Journalism and just finished teaching a...
Hillsdale jumped another 10 points in U.S. News and World Report’s 2021 ranking of the 100 Best National Liberal Arts Colleges, at 54th in the country, and The Collegian was recently ranked fifth in college newspapers in the country by Princeton Review. The Wall Street Journal’s annual ranking of the best colleges in the nation,...
During her Nov. 5 lecture at Hillsdale College, Kimberley Strassel urged the audience to remember Benjamin Franklin’s famous words: “We have a republic, if you can keep it.” Now entering her 25th year at the Wall Street Journal, Strassel is concerned about the growing rejection of the founding principles that Franklin helped craft. Strassel, who...