One wonders if the calls to end the electoral college come from the type of people who think it is an actual college. As economist Walter Williams recently pointed out, even a superficial review of…
Topic: democracy

Egytian Dissident Cynthia Farahat: Middle East Wants Free Markets, Free Speech
Cynthia Farahat, who spoke at Accuracy in Academia’s Author’s Night several years ago, talked about Middle East’s thirst for free speech and free markets in a recent interview with Reason.

Journalism 101: Orwell Revisited
Pity the poor journalism student: He, or she, has to keep up with so many ways to spin a story that it would make George Orwell dizzy. “During Republican administrations they prided themselves on being…
Plan for the Post-Republic after 2016 Elections, Warns Writer
Angelo Codevilla warns about the post-American republic due to the 2016 election cycle and both parties’ establishments’ actions to get us to this point.
Churchill and De Gaulle, Liberty Lovers
Winston Churchill and Charles De Gaulle were eerily similar political figures, said Hillsdale politics professor Will Morrisey at a recent Kirby Center lecture in Washington, D.C. Both had to rally their people and country to…
Where Area Studies Err
There’s a very good chance that everything you’ve learned in your Middle East studies class is wrong. Haroon Ullah, currently on the policy planning staff of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s Policy Planning Staff…