Only five incumbent presidents in the last 100 years have lost re-election, and Gov. Romney couldn’t garner the momentum to make President Obama the sixth. Still, I was surprised that the Republican base didn’t turn out for our nominee. Romney will endure much criticism in the coming weeks, and I think it’s important to reiterate...
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September 21, 2012July 12, 2022Culture
Review: ‘Sex and God at Yale’
It’s a disgusting, excellent work. Seldom do those two adjectives belong next to each other in a sentence, but it’s the best way to describe Nathan Harden’s new book “Sex and God at Yale.” It’s a curious combination — a memoir mixed with a devastatingly thorough exposé of the ongoing moral decay at Yale. In...
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November 6, 2012July 12, 2022Opinion
Elections have consequences: women, sex, and voting
“Y our first time shouldn’t be with just anybody. You want to do it with a great guy,” Lena Dunham says in a new campaign ad for President Obama. The minute-long YouTube clip features the star of the popular show “Girls” as she explains why young voters, particularly women, “are ready” to vote for Obama....
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October 30, 2012July 12, 2022News
Off the Record
Voting matters. You’ve heard it said a million times, but many students at Hillsdale College disagree. These students declare in Saga, in class, on Facebook or Twitter that they’re not voting because their vote won’t determine the outcome of the election, the candidates are too similar, or they have better things to do. This thinking...
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November 4, 2012July 12, 2022News
Gamble’s book explores, explains ‘city on a hill’
as become comonplace in American political discourse, often used in the context of American exceptionalism. The metaphor, however, has been refashioned and misapplied, according to Associate Professor of History Richard Gamble’s new book “In Search of the City on a Hill: The Making and Unmaking of an American Myth,” released on Aug. 2. The idea...