Noah Sisson’s piece was a pernicious mix of deceit, spin, repetition, and half-baked research, almost impressively confined to the space of a few hundred words. Nearly every item posited as fact is demonstrably untrue. To set the record straight in order: Erik Prince was not
As chairman of the Beloit College Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) chapter, I would like to provide some clarity on the upcoming lecture by Erik Prince. People seem to relish being willfully misleading about his record and others are all too eager to believe them
Young Americans for Freedom is belatedly kicking off the spring semester after a highly successful fall speakers’ series. On our invitation, former US attorney general John Ashcroft came to Beloit, whereupon he was greeted by a sizeable and enthusiastic crowd. A short time later, legal
On Friday, April 13, Paul Dionne of the Office of Academic Diversity and Inclusivity (OADI) emailed an open letter to President Scott Bierman and Dean of Students Christina Klawitter outlining new suggested guidelines for cases of racial harassment. As of the time I am writing
Allan Bloom’s The Closing of the American Mind was published 30 years ago. Bloom, a little-known University of Chicago professor of political theory, found fame as the author of an immediate hit, present on the minds and mouths of students, intellectuals, and the common citizen
In his May 2, 1801 letter to Hugh White, Thomas Jefferson wrote, “Born in other countries, yet believing you could be happy in this, our laws acknowledge, as they should do, your right to join us in society, conforming…to our established rules.” Jefferson’s words are taken to heart
Oxford Dictionaries proclaimed that the word of year for 2016 was “post-truth.” The severe degradation of our political discourse during the election year in the form of a concerted fake news campaign and vitriolic rhetoric from both sides makes the meaning of this term self-evident