Last semester, Dr. Mark Brouwer rocked my world with a statement so simple that I hit myself for not saying it first: “If there was a solution to the political problems of the world, then someone would have discovered it by now.” How else could there have been so many absolutely brilliant political philosophers on [...]

Wabash Conservative Union: Can you tell us a little bit about your education and what made you turn towards Libertarianism?
Dr. Tom Palmer: That’s a more difficult question than it may seem because I’ve been thinking about these questions for a long time. I would say that when I was very young I had a formative [...]

Growing up, I always loved history. I probably knew and heard more about history than I did about God or any other important subject, so it was central to my early life. There was always something about learning your country’s past and finding out who died where and what happened when that fascinated me. Naturally, [...]

Last semester Wabash’s administration was forced to make necessary but difficult decisions. Faced with a much-depleted endowment, the College needed to act in order to sustain itself for the future, and eventually it realized that the total number of professors must decrease. It is, of course, a sad thing to cut faculty members from any [...]

Last summer while I was back home in Florida, I came across an article in the local paper entitled “Driver’s license rules to change”. Naturally, I was intrigued as to why such a change was going to occur. It stated more documentation was going to be required to renew a driver’s license as well as [...]

Wabash has a deep history of producing politically active men, who go into the field of politics, creating great achievements for both themselves and their college.  In the upcoming election cycle there are a handful of Wabash men who are attempting to navigate a trail that has been blazed by many Wabash men of the [...]

George Washington once said, “Any post is honorable in which a man can serve his country.” When the idea of service comes to mind, many think of the military. How noble a cause that is, sacrificing one’s time and, in some instances, one’s life for a cause greater than self. Recently, Crawfordsville lost one of [...]

America is anti-family.
It is probably not surprising to see such words at the beginning of an article in a conservative publication.  The mantra of any social conservative pushing an agenda—be it concerning abortion, homosexuality, or sex education—is that contemporary American values degrade the role of the family in society.  Unfortunately, the accusation of being anti-family [...]

Have you heard about MTV’s new reality show 16 and Pregnant? To qualify you must be sixteen and expecting, be highly entertaining, have a deadbeat baby daddy, and be active in making your life fall apart on national television. The show’s winners advance to the spin off series “Teen Mom”, where contestants further denigrate their [...]