On January 19, a cold night in the Northeast, Scott Brown stood in front of thousands as the newly elected Senator in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. As if going from being relatively unknown to Senator-elect in just a couple months wasn’t shocking enough, another fact about Scott Brown made his win over Massachusetts Attorney General [...]

Our culture hates children. The process of growing up, never easy at the best of times, has been made much more difficult and dangerous than it needs to be. The thieving education industry which herds them like animals in a zoo to keep them from becoming adults for many years after they are physically mature [...]

Undoubtedly a significant majority of those who are reading this article considered themselves “pre-med” when they were rung in to Wabash College their freshmen year. And probably many of you still do, but it is more likely that an even greater majority have chosen another career. It seems that, when we are faced with the [...]

Wabash College prides itself on being a “liberal arts college for men.” Faculty and some students continue to wax poetic about the liberal arts, especially in recent times. With discussions about curriculum reform in relation to the decreasing number of faculty teaching at the College and the reformation of the old Cultures and Traditions class, [...]

The Wabash College mission statement asks Wabash men to think critically, act responsibly, lead effectively, and live humanely.  The goal of the liberal arts, in essence, is to develop a well rounded individual who can think for themselves about a multitude of subjects and excel in a multitude of ways.  The teacher education program asks [...]

I was watching Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life over Christmas break this year, and it got me thinking about the Industrial Workers of the World. I suppose that is one of the side effects of a Wabash liberal arts education: It can pollute a perfectly good movie with horribly academic thoughts. My preoccupation with [...]

CPAC, or the Conservative Political Action Conference, took place this past weekend. The conference is an annual political event attended by conservative activists and elected officials from across the country. This year’s conference had a record attendance of over ten thousand conservatives who came together to discuss the future of the conservative movement. There were [...]

One can hear it discussed toward the end of each semester, when final papers are coming due. In closed door conversations Wallies talk, sometimes brag, about how they managed to finish their papers with its help. The topic of conversation is Adderall, and it is viewed as a saving grace by too many students.
I first [...]

It’s a bright summer day, and as the fresh blue sky hangs over the town like an open stage, the gathered townsfolk await in anxious anticipation for their new sheriff to arrive. The band plays as hands clap, and the town drunk intently scans the horizon until a rider on horseback approaches. He yells.
“Hey, the [...]