The legacy of William F. Buckley, Jr. is perhaps nowhere more pertinent than on the American college campus. But it is perhaps among college-aged Americans where it is most taken for granted. It is difficult for most current Wabash students, being born during the Reagan presidency, to imagine the world before conservatism was [...]

Wabash Conservative Union (WCU): What is your definition of fascism?
Jonah Goldberg (JG): The shorthand definition is that fascism is a variant of totalitarianism. It is a political religion that worships the cult of unity and is a religion of the state that believes that the state… needs to guide and validate every institution in [...]

I am a big fan of ABC’s “The Big Give,” which was created by Oprah Winfrey’s vision to develop a show that would capitalize on the true meaning of giving back. Each week,
the contestants are given a challenge in which they “give back” to communities across the country. Week by week, contestants are kicked off [...]

On March 19, I made the short walk from Martindale Hall to Dr. Edward McLean’s quaint house on Grant Avenue. Though I had not realized the significance of that date when I arranged the interview, it was at the forefront of my mind after I had seen the New York Times and Indianapolis Star that [...]

Christina Hoff Sommers, former Clark University philosophy professor, Chairman of the Board of Advisors of the Independent Women’s Forum, and author of such provocative and quite controversial books as The War on Boys: How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men, and Who Stole Feminism?: How Women Have Betrayed Women, will be presenting a lecture [...]

After four years of Wabash and with graduation looming near, I have to admit that I’m just plain exhausted.
But it’s not just the piles of papers and exams that have worn me out.
I’m more worn out by seeing the worst of Wabash. I’m tired of the personal agendas and politicking of members of the [...]

For my second, yet regrettably final, submission for The Phoenix, I wanted to address a topic with some global significance. The “global warming epidemic” that has been thrust to the forefront of political and environmental debates appeared to be the perfect topic. If Wabash has taught me anything in my four short years here, it [...]

by Sean Clerget ‘09
Professor Stephen L. Carter is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at the Yale Law School and was the first tenured African American faculty member. He was an undergraduate at Stanford University, went to the Yale Law School, and clerked for Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. He is one of the [...]

During the first few years of my career at Wabash, back in the early nineties, our department did a lot of hiring, which means we had lots of dinners with job candidates, and thus we had to tell them what Wabash is all about. We ended up saying the same things over and over and [...]