Elected officials, from rural school board members to the president of the United States, take an oath to defend the Constitution. Additionally, many unelected officials, such as FBI agents, take an oath of loyalty to the Constitution. Inherent in these initiation ceremonies is the belief that the Constitution is the regime to which officials bind themselves. Here, insurrection is best understood as an attack against a text, not a person or a building — even though buildings and people may be casualties caught up in an attack against the American idea.
Hillsdale College, the preeminent conservative institution of higher learning in America, distributes as many pocket Constitutions as possible to anyone who will have one. They have long known this is what needs conservation.
In November 2021, an original copy of the U.S. Constitution fetched an impressive bounty of $43,200,000 at a private auction — a monetary gesture at the value of the text that holds America in existence.
When Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wants to validate her positions, her go-to is still the United States Constitution. She may stray from what is now considered mainstream, but she never goes so far as to stray away (in her theory) from the Constitution.
Given the importance of this text, what must it mean for people who are not actually loyal to the Constitution to rise in rank? Do you suspect we&#8217;ve had a lot of these folks in serious positions for quite some time?
If your answer is yes, you have detected what one preeminent political philosopher has called a “cause of constitutional change” by accident. “Accident” here means something not directly related to the State, which makes it harder to detect.
The three other accidental causes of regime change are:
<ol>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Corrupt elections or electioneering leading to changes over time.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Many minor changes to the Constitution add up to large changes over time.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Immigrants in large numbers splintering the country into new factions over time.</li>
</ol>
Does any of this sound familiar?
In addition to the subtle but deadly causes of regime change, the philosopher also provides a list of non-accidental causes of constitutional change, i.e., causes directly related to the State.  
He lists them:
<ol>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">An arrogant ruler is in charge.  </li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">A repelling faction develops.  </li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">People are acting to avoid disgrace or gain honor.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">A too-powerful monarchy or oligarchy is ruling.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">The people fear punishment.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">The people despise those in power.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">One class grows disproportionate.</li>
</ol>
Would you be surprised to hear these lists were composed 2,400 years ago by Aristotle?
Today our youth shrug off movies from the ’80s as irrelevant to their current life experience. The hope of generating interest in the wisdom of the ages is often dashed for a belief that the ideas du jour are on an uninterrupted continuum of progress. They are “awoke” that the ways of old are categorically unredeemable and offer nothing to them and their stream of consciousness.
Examples of this behavior abound, but the thinking often goes something like, “Fat can be the new healthy if one wants, and anyone who thinks otherwise is a bigot. These bigots will be trampled during the march of progress.”
How could a person holding this disposition take up the Constitution as something worth extending into the future? They cannot.
It should be mentioned that in composing this list of “deadlies” to a regime, Aristotle was not making a moral claim about the phenomena of regime change, but more basically an observation that these are the things that ultimately lead to regime change. If any of these items were set into motion, over time the Constitution of a state would become vulnerable.
While it’s a stretch to credit any one group with systematically organizing these action items together, they certainly have been pushed by organized factions, and not by accident. We find ourselves well into an unfolding development of many of these phenomena.
The 24-hour news cycle dominating public discussion encourages short-term, immediate thinking based on the present. The muscle memory needed to reflect on the past and to reference the wisdom of past ages becomes atrophied in these conditions. We are wired to grab for what seems pressing, and in this predicament, the resources available to think through important questions are often left aside.
It can be encouraging to know that while we are in a new era, we have not transcended the body, material world, or the basics of human nature that still account for so much of politics and individual and group behavior. The flawed and genius playbook that Aristotle composed 2,400 years ago is still very much in play, albeit with characters that he probably never could have imagined in his wildest dreams. If the American regime is worth preserving, it’s worth a nod and reference.
Becca Williams is the founder of Valor Education. 

The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

We The People – US Constitution

How The Slow Roll Of ‘Constitutional Regime Change’ Unravels A Nation

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Constitution

Education

Founding Fathers

Hillsdale College

Readers Pass

Hillsdale College President Larry Arnn tore into the state of public education last week during a private college event in Tennessee.
Arnn’s comments were caught on a hidden camera at a private college event in Franklin, Tennessee, just south of the state capital of Nashville. Tennessee Governor Bill Lee attended the event as Arnn’s “special guest.” The recording of the event was obtained by a local Tennessee outlet, <a href="https://www.newschannel5.com/news/newschannel-5-investigates/revealed/revealed-teachers-come-from-dumbest-parts-of-dumbest-colleges-tenn-governors-education-advisor-tells-him">News Channel 5 Nashville</a>.
Tennessee and Hillsdale College currently have a working partnership. Lee <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tennessee-partners-with-hillsdale-college-in-statewide-charter-school-initiative">announced</a> in January that Tennessee was partnering with Hillsdale College to build dozens of classical K-12 charter schools across the state.
During the nearly two-hour event, Arnn criticized the institutions currently directing and influencing state-run education, such as the Department of Education, various universities with accredited education programs, and the National Association of Education union. After Channel 5 published its story, Claude Pressnell Jr., president of Tennessee Independent Colleges and Universities Association, <a href="https://twitter.com/Pressnell/status/1542650038047739904">called</a> Arnn&#8217;s comments &#8220;incredibly disturbing&#8221; and an insult to educators.
Channel 5 reported clips of the event without publishing a full video of the event or Arnn’s comments. The Daily Wire was not able to obtain a full recording of Arnn’s comments, nor did Channel 5 respond to a request to share the full recording.
Channel 5 reported that Arnn “repeatedly mock[ed] the intelligence of public school teachers and question[ed] whether they really care about what is best for their students,” a characterization that both Hillsdale College and Lee’s office contest.
“Dr. Arnn was clearly criticizing the educational bureaucracy that has done a great disservice to both teachers and students by depriving them of the high-quality, content-rich education that makes for excellent teaching,” Hillsdale College spokeswoman Emily Davis told The Daily Wire in a statement.
“Hillsdale College has been in the serious business of education and teaching for more than 175 years. It wants what parents want: for as many children in America as possible to have access to high-quality educational options,” Davis continued. “The college’s approach to classical education in the liberal arts and sciences — combined with instruction in the principles of moral character and civic virtue — is the very best at teaching the whole child, helping students understand the world, and preparing young people for a life of service and flourishing. We look forward to assisting in that noble endeavor in Tennessee.”
Lee spokeswoman Laine Arnold told The Daily Wire, “Critics dishonestly claimed that a recent event with Hillsdale College criticized Tennessee teachers when it did not. Criticizing activism and other Left-wing issues that creep into the classroom is entirely separate from sentiments about the value or performance of Tennessee teachers. Our respect and support for educators in Tennessee wasn’t up for debate then and it isn’t now.”
Arnn’s college is a Christian liberal arts school in southern Michigan well known for its refusal to accept federal funds of any kind to limit the influence the federal government has on its curriculum. The college is popular among conservatives and often advertises with right-wing broadcasters.
Arnn said of the National Association of Education (NEA): “They’re the biggest gorillas, and they have a monopoly on education.” Teachers unions, of which the NEA is the largest, are generally highly partisan with 94% of donations backing Democrats, according to <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/indus.php?ind=l1300">Open Secrets</a>.
NEA’s president, Becky Pringle, has been an outspoken critic of any display of religion in public schools, whether or not it is sanctioned by the school itself. She <a href="https://twitter.com/BeckyPringle/status/1541433171761315843">slammed</a> the Supreme Court’s recent decision to side with a Washington state high school football coach who was disciplined for praying at midfield after football games. Pringle denounced the coach’s action as “sectarian religious coercion.”
Later on in the event, Arnn criticized the university education system for teachers and the approach to education overall inherent in them. “Ed departments in colleges, if you work in a college, you’ll know this – unless you work in the Ed department, ours is different – but they are the dumbest part of every college,” Arnn said.
The Hillsdale College president went on to suggest that teaching is not a skill that needs to be taught at universities, so much as the knowledge and topics the teachers will need to master in order to teach their students.
“If you study physics, there’s a subject, right? How does the physical world work? That’s hard to figure out. Politics is actually the study of justice. What is justice? Some of the greatest books ever written are written about that. ‘Plato’s Republic’ is written about that. Literature – they don’t do it much anymore, but you can read the greatest books, the most beautiful books ever written. Education is the study of how to teach. Is that a separate art? I don’t think so,” Arnn said.
Arnn cited theologian C.S. Lewis’ book “The Abolition of Man,” which in part argues that a rejection of an objective morality leads to the collapse of society. “[Bad] education destroys generations of people. It’s devastating. It’s like the plague.”
“The philosophic understanding at the heart of modern education is enslavement and we have to break out of that,” Arnn said.
Arnn said that most teachers are currently taught to “do” something to children rather than cultivate their minds and souls.
“It’s an organized force. The teachers are trained in the dumbest parts of the dumbest colleges in the country, and they are taught that they are going to go and do something to those kids,” Arnn said. “Do they ever talk about anything except what they are going to do to these kids?
“My wife is English, and she’s a gardener,” he said, “and she doesn’t talk about what she is going to do to these plants. She talks about what they need, because if you give them what they need, they will grow. It’s not a manufacturing operation.”
“They’re messing with people’s children, and they feel entitled to do anything to them, and if you mess with that, they’ll call the FBI on you,” Arnn said at one point, an apparent reference to a Department of Justice action last year.
Last summer, outraged parents spoke out at numerous school board meetings across the U.S. in protest of continuing COVID protocols and the influence of LGBT and Critical Race Theory content on their children’s education. Amid the outrage, the Department of Justice <a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/education-news/articles/2021-10-21/garland-defends-decision-to-mobilize-fbi-against-threats-to-school-board-members">mobilized</a> the FBI against threats to school boards in an act many Republicans denounced as an attempt to intimidate parents for pushing back against leftism.
Arnn also criticized the average university system and the rigor of obtaining a degree in education.
“In colleges now, what you hire now is administrators. You don’t get faculty anymore, you get kids to do that, if you can. And the administrators you hire are all diversity people. And that helps you, by the way, with your federal requirements that you have a certain number by color,” Arnn said. “And what do they do? What they do is tell everybody else what to do. And now, because they are appointing all these diversity officers, what are their degrees in? Education. It&#8217;s easy. You don&#8217;t have to know anything.”

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Hillsdale College President Under Fire After Ripping State Of Public Education: Here’s What He Said.

Hillsdale College President Under Fire After Ripping State Of Public Education. Here’s What He Said.

Bill Lee

Public Schools

Tennessee

Esteemed author and clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson discussed the reality of the “devil in the crossroads” in his Saturday commencement speech at Hillsdale College.
“You’re at a pinnacle of sorts,” Peterson <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuJczjOIN9I">told</a> the graduating seniors at the conservative Michigan school. “You’re at a crossroads. You’re entering a new phase of your life. You’re someone different than you were four years ago, and hopefully someone better. Likely someone better.”
“A crossroads — the metaphor works because you make a decision. You go one direction or another. There’s an old ‘blues’ idea that you meet the devil at the crossroads. I always wondered why that was — I found it true. It’s a really compelling idea. It’s an image that has a good narrative fit, and it sticks in your memory once you hear it.”
“Maybe that’s when you examine your conscience,” Peterson suggested. “Or it examines you.”
“Why do you meet the devil at the crossroads? And the answer is, most fundamentally, because when you come to a place in your life where you have to make a choice … you aim up or down. And there is always an agent of temptation at every choice point, enticing you to aim down.”
As one example of “aiming down,” Peterson referred the graduates to the biblical account of Cain and Abel. The former brother made sacrifices to God that were “not everything that they could be” and “not in the service of the highest good” — and also “arrogant,” because “when we make improper sacrifices, we believe in the deepest part of ourselves that we’ve pulled one over God.”
Peterson continued by noting that the Bible — being “unbelievably sophisticated from a literary perspective, philosophical perspective, theological perspective, existential perspective” — next offers the narrative of the Flood, which points to “nihilistic chaos.” He also dove into the meaning of the term “sin” — which in its Greek and Hebrew iterations, according to Peterson, is “to miss the mark.”
“It implies that it has something to do with aim or the lack thereof. I love that. … There’s a variety of ways you can miss the mark, right? Don’t aim at all — that’s a good one. Assume there is no such thing as aim. Assume all aims are equal.”
On the other hand, Peterson said faith is a “form of courage.”
“One of the things I’ve thought a lot about in relationship to faith — we have this idea, and it’s not a good idea, and it’s certainly an idea for which religious people are often pilloried — that faith means the sacrifice of reason and the willingness to believe things that are patently not true … I don’t think that’s what faith is at all in some fundamental sense. I think faith is a form of courage.”
“If you’re hurt by life — and you will be — it’s understandable that you might react in a nihilistic and hopeless fashion … and I think part of what helps you through that is faith,” Peterson described. “And part of that faith is that it’s incumbent on you … to maintain faith in the fundamental goodness of existence, including your own, despite the evidence to the contrary.”
“When you’re at the crossroads and you’re counseled to despair — rise up in courage and see if you can resist it,” Peterson advised. “It’s better for you, and it’s better for the people around you.”
Peterson noted that the Tower of Babel follows the Flood in the biblical narrative.
“It’s a continual temptation for human beings to build complex organizations that get too high. So what does that mean? How about too many layers? Not local enough, not distributed enough, right? Too separate from the people that they serve,” Peterson argued. “It’s also a Luciferian story. Lucifer is this spirit of intellect — the light-bringer who’s flown too high and challenges God Himself, and falls. … It’s a symbol of prideful intellect. And it is the prideful intellect that raises itself up against what is most properly placed at the highest place — which is what God is.”
“I’m very opposed to the idea that the fundamental human motivation is power — which is pretty much what every student is taught at every level of their education, in every educational institution except a handful across your country,” Peterson added. “It’s such a dismal philosophy. … You could not formulate a more pathological philosophy. It obliterates your faith in society, and it eradicates the notion of the individual. It removes the notion of good faith and goodwill, and it makes communication impossible.”
To Peterson, such a self-aggrandizing mindset represents another temptation. “The construction of your own empire for your own narrow purposes — part of the reason you shouldn’t do that even though it’s tempting … is because, do you want to rule over hell?”
In terms of aiming higher, Peterson said that the pursuit of good is “practical.”
“You learn to optimize an aim, and then you see once you’ve learned to optimize an aim across a set of goods, you start to aim at what unites those goods … by practicing any good in any rigorous sense, and making the proper sacrifices in that direction, you simultaneously learn to approach the good that is the sum or the essence of all those proximal goods.”
“The essential insistence in Christianity is that the good that unites all those goods is the same good that’s reflected in the image of Christ, which is an image of acceptance of the suffering of life, and the necessity of serving the lowest as the highest calling.”
“That’s something that might be true — like really, actually, 100% true — more true than anything else.”
“It’s kind of earth-shattering, in some sense, to take this with real seriousness,” Peterson said. “It’s all very frightening if you’re not afraid of that vision and what it implies for you and your soul … but it’s also … an endlessly promising vision of what your life could be.”
In response to inevitable suffering, Peterson concluded that “the attempt alone” to move in the direction exemplified by Christ “is of sufficient value.”
“So that’s the choice you make at the crossroads.”

Jordan Peterson

‘The Devil At The Crossroads’: Jordan Peterson On Christianity, Suffering, And Temptation At Hillsdale College Commencement Address

Jordan Peterson Talks Faith And Suffering At Hillsdale Commencement Address

Christianity

Faith

Religion

Tennessee GOP Governor Bill Lee is fighting back against the rampant leftism purveyed in the educational community across the country by inviting famed conservative institution Hillsdale College —which refuses to accept state or federal funding, including student grants or loans — to start 50 charter schools in his state.
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/10/us/hillsdale-college-charter-schools.html">The New York Times</a> mocked Hillsdale’s principles, writing “The college has also developed the ‘1776 Curriculum,’ which sets out to portray America as ‘an exceptionally good country.’ During a time when education has become inflamed by divisive cultural debates, Hillsdale has been criticized for its glossy spin on American history as well as its ideological tilt on topics like affirmative action.”
And horror of horrors, the Times notes, “Educators and historians have also raised questions about other instruction at Hillsdale’s charter schools, citing their negative take on the New Deal and the Great Society and cursory presentation of global warming.”
Lee stated recently, “For decades, Hillsdale College has been the standard-bearer in quality curriculum and in the responsibility of preserving American liberty. &#8230; I believe their efforts are a good fit for Tennessee.”
“The Hillsdale charter schools are neither owned nor managed by Hillsdale,” The Times noted. “Instead, the schools enter agreements to use the Hillsdale curriculum and the college provides training for faculty and staff, as well as other assistance — all free of charge.”
In March, after speaking to the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce, Lee stated, “We want charter school operators in this state from all over the country. &#8230; Any, high-quality charter school operator that wants to locate in this state we want them to consider that.”
“We have 22 operators, we have 116 charters, that educate 44,000 kids — 91% of those kids are minority students that come from — many of them come from difficult zip codes and neighborhoods in our state. We need to give them and we should make certain that we give the parents who choose that public school options for their kids,” he added.
Hillsdale’s classical education hearkens back to the time when respect for the Western philosophical tradition lay at the heart of collegiate education. Here is a sample of <a href="https://www.hillsdale.edu/academics/classical-liberal-arts-core/">Hillsdale’s kind of thinking</a>:
<blockquote>Receive an introduction to early American political thought and its crowning political achievement, the United States Constitution. Learn basic American political concepts like natural rights, social compact theory, religious liberty, limited government, separation of powers, and the rule of law.
&#8230;
Receive an introduction to representative Great Books in the West from Antiquity to the Middle Ages, meeting works like the Bible and authors such as Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Plato, Aristotle, Virgil, Ovid, Augustine, and Dante.
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Continue your study of the Western literary tradition with English authors like Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Swift, Wordsworth, Dickens, Yeats, and Eliot, and American authors like Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman, Dickinson, Twain, Frost, Hemingway, and Faulkner.
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Receive a general overview of the history of philosophical development in the West from its inception with the Pre-Socratic philosophers of ancient Greece to the 20th century Anglo-American and Continental traditions. Meet thinkers and innovators like Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, Descartes, Locke, Hume, Kant, Mill, and Nietzsche.</blockquote>

Tennessee GOP Gov. Lee Fights Back Against Leftism, Working With Hillsdale To Open Charter Schools

Tennessee Governor Bill Lee (R) announced on Monday a state partnership with Michigan’s Hillsdale College to launch a number of K-12 charter schools.
Lee announced the partnership during his state of the state address on Monday evening in front of a special joint session of the state Legislature. Hillsdale College is a liberal arts college in southern Michigan known for its refusal to accept federal funds. The college has launched an initiative to revitalize “public education through the launch and support of classical K-12 charter schools.”
Lee and Hillsdale College President Larry Arnn are working together to build a system of charter schools in Tennessee.
“Two years ago, I traveled to Hillsdale College to participate in a Presidents Day celebration and spend time with champions of American exceptionalism,” Lee said. “For decades, Hillsdale College has been the standard bearer in quality curriculum and the responsibility of preserving American liberty.”
“I believe their efforts are a good fit for Tennessee, and we are formalizing a partnership with Hillsdale to expand their approach to civics education and K-12 education,” he added.
In an education-heavy speech, Lee leaned into the Tennessee state motto, “America at its best,” asserting that his state should be a model of governance for other states as well as the federal government. He touted the state’s conservative governance, from passing additional restrictions on abortion to pushing forward greater transparency in schools.
Lee also addressed the impact in Tennessee of national issues such as immigration and growing tensions between the United States and China.
Tennessee was one of multiple states to send national guardsmen to the U.S. southern border after the governors of Texas and Arizona put out a call for aid in policing illegal immigration from Mexico. Lee said that illegal immigration on the southern border is driving drug trafficking and other illegal activity in Tennessee.
“Both drug trafficking and human trafficking are on the rise in our country and in Tennessee. This is unacceptable,” Lee said before noting that 50 Tennessee National Guardsmen had left for the southern border last week.
On China, Lee said that Tennessee has banned Confucius Institutes, China-funded centers that have sparked concerns of Chinese propaganda in Washington, from college campuses. The governor said his administration is working to strengthen the vetting of companies working with and moving into Tennessee to cut off connections to countries such as China.
Lee announced a plan to provide “every house of worship” with “high quality safety training” to protect against terror, hate, and other attacks targeting religious groups. He based the plan on the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rabbi-held-hostage-in-texas-synagogue-says-active-shooter-training-saved-lives-from-belligerent-terrorist">experience</a> of a Texas rabbi who credited such training for his escape from a hostage situation.
The governor announced a host of education initiatives, including an overhaul of a roughly 30-year-old system of funding for school districts, shifting it from a school-focused system to a student-focused system.
“A formula that prioritizes the needs of students above all else, and that pays particular attention to students with disabilities, rural students, low income-students, and students with other priority needs,” Lee said. “If we do this correctly, we can create a funding formula that demands accountability and rewards districts for performance, but most importantly funds students and not bureaucracies.”

Tennessee Partners With Hillsdale College In Statewide Charter School Initiative

Hillsdale College and the University of Missouri (Mizzou) are in the midst of a legal showdown over donor dollars — or more specifically, over a hefty donation from Sherlock Hibbs, a Wall Street financier who died in 2002.
Hibbs’ will allotted $5 million to Mizzou for the purpose of hiring &#8220;dedicated and articulate disciples&#8221; of the free market — specifically, Austrian economics. However, he installed a caveat: Follow the stipulations of the donation or forfeit the funds to Hillsdale College, a famously conservative institution.
With colleges and universities so ready to leave conservative principles in the dustbin of history, it’s no wonder Hibbs didn’t necessarily trust Mizzou to fulfill the conditions of his donation. And sadly, according to Hillsdale, Hibbs was right to be skeptical all along. The conservative college has <a href="https://www.courts.mo.gov/file.jsp?id=135916">filed a lawsuit</a> that challenges Mizzou’s use of the donation.
“[Mizzou] has never appointed a dedicated and articulate disciple of the Ludwig von Mises (Austrian) School of Economics to a Chair or Distinguished Professorship funded by Mr. Hibbs&#8217; gift,&#8221; Hillsdale&#8217;s attorneys <a href="https://www.courts.mo.gov/file.jsp?id=135916">wrote</a> in the lawsuit. “Instead, [Mizzou] provided millions of dollars over 15 years to individuals who were not Austrian economists.”
There are <a href="https://www.columbiatribune.com/news/20190708/michigan-college-sues-over-5-million-donated-to-mu?fbclid=IwAR3pPsNCdKW67LFDsY4_8KKn5f0fZo7rMCaqTcCGHYnsPUVHvBVjO7omcD4">currently four professors at Mizzou who are funded</a> by Hibbs&#8217; donation: Karen Schnatterly, Dan Turban, Lisa Scheer, and Rhonda Reger. Each scholar signed an oath that he/she is “a dedicated and articulate disciple of the free and open market economy (the Ludwig von Mises Austrian School of Economics).” However, according to Hillsdale’s research, not one of these scholars has published on the topic.
Phil Magness, an economic historian and senior research fellow at the American Institute for Economic Research, backs this up. “None of the named faculty appear to have any meaningful research in or connection to Austrian economics.&#8221; Magness continued: &#8220;It looks like Missouri accepted the cash, then failed to honor the terms of the donor.&#8221;
Furthermore, Mizzou refuses to respond to requests for comment regarding these professors’ course curricula. Mizzou&#8217;s director of media relations, Christian Basi, told Reason’s Robby Soave that evidence of dedication to Mises is “not a requirement of the gift.”
Taking all this into account, Mizzou seems happy to rake in donor money but is unwilling to use it for its intent of funding ideological diversity on campus — which Mizzou desperately needs.
After all, this is the same campus where a street preacher was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/1281/heres-why-preacher-got-punched-mizzou-amanda-prestigiacomo">punched in the face</a>, a professor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/39732/mizzou-official-claims-tall-men-asking-out-short-ashe-schow">threatened a student journalist</a>, and the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/21480/update-two-years-after-embracing-racial-protests-james-barrett">football team vowed to quit</a> if the president of the university didn’t resign. In fact, these antics resulted in enrollment dropping a stunning 35%, forcing the school to shut down seven dorms and lay off more than 400 employees. With stats like that, reverting a donation to Hillsdale should be the least of the school’s worries.
Mizzou’s blatant disregard for the terms of the donation agreement paints the perfect picture of how many colleges and universities are willing to pay lip service to ideological diversity while spitting in its face. Thank God for the institution of Hillsdale, which provides an alternative and conservative voice in the academic marketplace, and is now holding other universities accountable, as well.

COOLEY: A New Lawsuit Reveals The Difference Between Lip Service And Dedication To Ideological Diversity On Campus

Free Speech

Lawsuit

University of Missouri