Enquiry: A Publication of the AHI Undergraduate Fellows | vol. X
Last Thursday night, National Review, the quintessential publication of the American conservative movement, published a symposium called “Conservatives against Trump.” Twenty-two writers contributed brief, principled pieces on why the right-of-center movement should not embrace Trump, even if he’s currently popular among a large and frankly embarrassing part of the Republican Party’s base.
Read MoreEarlier this month, South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley gave the GOP response to President Obama’s State of the Union Address. Contrary to Obama’s claim of a strong economy, Haley revealed more realistic economic conditions.
Read MoreFor almost a month now, we have been hearing about gun wielding activists occupying an animal wildlife refuge in rural Oregon. It is easy to dismiss these self-proclaimed militiamen as right-wing extremists with absurd justifications for initiating a government standoff. But one question that should be running through your mind is, “why are they still out there?”
Read MoreHamilton College recently hit a low point when activists calling themselves “the Movement” made national headlines for their laughable list of “demands” that sent college administrators scrambling to appease them in one way or another.
Fortunately, Hamilton followed up the low point with a high point the very next week. On December 11, Hamilton announced the selection of a new college president. David Wippman, a professor of international law and the Dean of the University of Minnesota Law School, will assume the office in July 2016.
Read MorePrison population reduction has started making inroads in mainstream public policy, most notably with the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act, currently under consideration in Congress. How to resolve mass incarceration has been a source of partisan debate, but prison reform has become a bipartisan concern.
Read MoreLafayette College is a small, elite liberal arts institution in Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley, well known for its robust academics and picturesque campus. One of Lafayette’s particularly breathtaking buildings is the Kirby Hall of Civil Rights—said to be one of the most expensive buildings per square foot when it was constructed in the 1920s—which boasts a stately Roman-revival exterior, a grand travertine marbled-clad entryway, and an airy, oak paneled-library.
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