Dr. Samuel Rocha is the Owen Duston Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Teacher Education at Wabash. He came at the beginning of this school year and will also be returning next year. The Wabash Conservative Union sat down with Dr. Rocha to discuss his work as a philosopher of education, his impressions of Wabash, [...]

On March 1st and 2nd, the Wabash Community welcomed author James McBride to campus. His New York Times Bestseller The Color of Water takes up a week-long discussion of “identity” in the first year of the C&T replacement course, Enduring Questions. McBride tells the story of his “white” mother who successfully put twelve children through [...]

This image speaks for itself. A witty and classy response from Carlos May:

After Joseph C. Phillips’ recent lecture at Wabash College , I got the opportunity to interview him about his views on race, politics, and problems with the Republicans. Even though I went to the lecture, talking to him gave me a deeper insight on his life and views. The following is an excerpt of our [...]

Greg Slisz recently covered our Joseph Phillips event for the Wabash College website, and touched on some of the interesting ideas about identity politics that Phillips addressed.

“I would show up at the casting director’s office and they wanted to know, ‘Can you do Eddie Murphy? Can you rap or breakdance?’ No I can’t rap or [...]

On October 29, the Wabash Conservative Union will be proud to host one of the nation’s most active thinkers and writers, Mr. Joseph C. Phillips. Mr. Phillips will be delivering a lecture entitled “He Talk Like a White Boy”, based on his nationally bestselling book of the same name. In his lecture, as in his [...]

In America today, race is a taboo subject. Anyone who has ever found him or herself on the wrong side of an accusation of racism knows how devastating it can be. Race has become a weapon in society to enforce a political orthodoxy. Stanford Professor Richard Thompson Ford examines this curious situation, [...]

As I compose some final thoughts on race in relation to Wabash, it is necessary that I make it clear that I am by no means an expert or a scholar on the issue of race. The lack of expertise, however, should never keep one from expressing ones opinions and ideas on a topic. It [...]

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