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Topics Culture Government Economics Education History Foreign Policy Conservatism Law Religion National Defense Subscribe Support Imprimis Select Page Rogue Prosecutors and the Rise of Crime Cully Stimson | March 2024 What happens when district attorneys—members of their states’ executive branches—refuse to execute the laws of the land? We are witnessing the results today in blue cities across America. READ ISSUE Disparate Impact Thinking Is Destroying Our Civilization Heather Mac Donald | February 2024 It is urgent that we fight back against disparate impact thinking. As long as racism remains the only allowable explanation for racial disparities, the Left wins, and our civilization will continue to crumble. Read Issue An Immigration Crisis Beyond Imagining Todd Bensman | January 2024 Of the over 7.6 million illegals encountered by Border Patrol since January 2021, the number allowed to stay inside the U.S. is somewhere north of five million. But with the percentage of those allowed to stay now approaching 100 percent, if current trends hold, the total allowed to remain in the U.S. under the Biden administration will reach ten million by next January. Read Issue Lessons From the Great Covid Cover-Up Rand Paul | December 2023 To think that we can prevent future pandemics, even as we continue to seek, catalog, and manipulate dangerous viruses, is the height of hubris. Over the last few years, public health experts” were wrong about almost everything. If we are to avoid these kinds of catastrophes in the future, we must reform government and rein in out-of-control scientists and their enablers. Read Issue Hillsdale’s Mission and the Politics of Freedom Larry P. Arnn | November 2023 Hillsdale has always been broadly partisan on behalf of freedom. Indeed we are required by the College’s charter document, written in 1844, to offer sound learning” of the kind needed to preserve the blessings of civil and religious liberty and intelligent piety in the land.” In the early decades of Hillsdale’s history, that meant opposing slavery. In recent decades, it has meant opposing the centralization of comprehensive power that corrodes our Constitution and undermines our American way of life. Read Issue Why the CIA No Longer Works—and How to Fix It Charles S. Faddis | October 2023 CIA Recruiters no longer focus on the key psychological traits critical to success in the world of spying. They look at academic degrees, existing levels of language proficiency, and increasingly at things like skin color and sexual orientation. Training has been softened and is increasingly formbook in nature. We act as if anyone can be taught to conduct espionage—as if this is no longer an arcane craft to be practiced by a select group of unique people. Read Issue Inside the Transgender Empire Christopher F. Rufo | September 2023 This is the great project of the transgender movement: to abolish the distinctions of man and woman, to transcend the limitations established by God and nature, and to connect the personal struggle of trans individuals to the political struggle to transform society in a radical way. Read Issue Imperialism: Lessons From History Victor Davis Hanson | July/August 2023 Some suggest today that America is behaving imperialistically—we do, after all, have some 600 military bases around the world. So it is worth recalling some historical examples of imperialism to understand what the idea entails. Read Issue The Most Important Decision in Life Bishop Robert Barron | June 2023 2023 COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS The story of Elijah and the priests of Baal is much more than a jingoistic story of my God is bigger than your god.” It is a rich presentation of the dynamics of true and false worship. The altar erected to Baal stands for all the ways in which we order the infinite longing of our hearts to something less than God. When we do this, the fire never falls, because merely worldly things cannot satisfy our hungry souls. Read Issue Thinking Smartly About Climate Change Bjorn Lomborg | April/May 2023 The annual number of hurricanes that make landfall in the U.S. since 1900 is slightly declining, not increasing. The same is true for major hurricanes (category three and above) hitting the U.S. We see the same thing if we look at world data for total hurricane energy in the satellite era, 1980-2022. In fact, 2022 was the second lowest recorded year. Did you hear that reported anywhere? No, because it doesn’t fit the dominant narrative. 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