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For those of you not familiar with Hillsdale College, it is a small conservative liberal arts college located in Hillsdale Michigan, nearly due south of Lansing. Hillsdale College is entirely privately supported and accepts exactly ZERO federal funding. This is done very deliberately so that it does not have to consider any other factor than academic eligibility in its admission process. The school holds a lecture series that invites prominent conservative thinkers to speak, as well as to contribute to a free publication they offer called "Imprimis."

Anybody can sign up for a free monthly mailing of Imprimis. I have been a subscriber for several years now, and I highly recommend it as a source of foundational reading for conservative thought. What you receive for your subscription is an 8 page pamplet containing a prominent speaker's words. You can also access each issue online at the following address:

http://www.hillsdale.edu/news/imprimis/archive/date.asp

Previous issues have been written by such notables as Paul Ryan, Sung Yoon Lee, Stephen Hayes, Vaclav Klaus, Michael Mukasey, and so on. This month's issue is titled "Unity and Beauty of the Declaration and Constitution," and consists of an interview of Hillsdale College President Larry P. Arnn, by Peter Robinson of the Hoover Institution.

I highly recommend these readings for a couple of reasons. One is that they are brilliant. They lay bare the foundational principles of the nation, in such a way that they are completely understandable, and more importantly, undeniable. When you arm yourself with this kind of truth and knowledge, no misguided liberal thinking can derail the truth of what you say to them. They must either A) confess their inability to intelligently disagree and convert to conservative (and logical) thought; B) make you their mortal enemy and openly pledge to the destruction of foundational principles (which right now they don't do because they hide behind a Constitution whose rights and privileges they neither believe in nor are willing to uphold); or C) admit that they're just not smart enough to understand this stuff and retire from the field. Any of those is satisfactory to me, so long as we have clarity.

Anyway, I thought I might post this here for everyone's consideration. You can never have too many good sources.

Yes, I've subscribed for years. I thoroughly enjoy it when a new issue hits the mailbox.

The Annoyed Man wrote:For those of you not familiar with Hillsdale College, it is a small conservative liberal arts college located in Hillsdale Michigan, nearly due south of Lansing. Hillsdale College is entirely privately supported and accepts exactly ZERO federal funding. This is done very deliberately so that it does not have to consider any other factor than academic eligibility in its admission process. The school holds a lecture series that invites prominent conservative thinkers to speak, as well as to contribute to a free publication they offer called "Imprimis."

Anybody can sign up for a free monthly mailing of Imprimis. I have been a subscriber for several years now, and I highly recommend it as a source of foundational reading for conservative thought. What you receive for your subscription is an 8 page pamplet containing a prominent speaker's words. You can also access each issue online at the following address:

http://www.hillsdale.edu/news/imprimis/archive/date.asp

Previous issues have been written by such notables as Paul Ryan, Sung Yoon Lee, Stephen Hayes, Vaclav Klaus, Michael Mukasey, and so on. This month's issue is titled "Unity and Beauty of the Declaration and Constitution," and consists of an interview of Hillsdale College President Larry P. Arnn, by Peter Robinson of the Hoover Institution.

I highly recommend these readings for a couple of reasons. One is that they are brilliant. They lay bare the foundational principles of the nation, in such a way that they are completely understandable, and more importantly, undeniable. When you arm yourself with this kind of truth and knowledge, no misguided liberal thinking can derail the truth of what you say to them. They must either A) confess their inability to intelligently disagree and convert to conservative (and logical) thought; B) make you their mortal enemy and openly pledge to the destruction of foundational principles (which right now they don't do because they hide behind a Constitution whose rights and privileges they neither believe in nor are willing to uphold); or C) admit that they're just not smart enough to understand this stuff and retire from the field. Any of those is satisfactory to me, so long as we have clarity.

Anyway, I thought I might post this here for everyone's consideration. You can never have too many good sources.

TAM, thank you for the reminder. I keep hearing about this on the radio from a couple of the shows I listen to and keep meaning to sign up. Well, somehow I never quite got around to it. Your posting was what I needed, subscription complied with. Merry Christmas.

Heartland Patriot wrote:TAM, thank you for the reminder. I keep hearing about this on the radio from a couple of the shows I listen to and keep meaning to sign up. Well, somehow I never quite got around to it. Your posting was what I needed, subscription complied with. Merry Christmas.

Ditto. Thanks for the Christmas present, TAM.

I have subscribed for years. My friends do too because of me. Good source of conservative info. Thanks for posting. I give money because they need it for the good kids.

Cool, I didn't know there would be other subscribers here. To those of you who just subscribed, you'll be impressed with what you read. It's amazing how educational 6 or 8 pages of content can be.

A friend of mine recommended Imprimis to me several years ago and I've enjoyed the subscription ever since. I missed Hillsdale's lecture series on the Constitution that was initiated a month or so back.

chasfm11 wrote:A friend of mine recommended Imprimis to me several years ago and I've enjoyed the subscription ever since. I missed Hillsdale's lecture series on the Constitution that was initiated a month or so back.

The issues are downloadable in PDF format. I've often forwarded copies to friends if there was something said I felt strongly about.

Oh, I get that too, but I have no idea why. I'd never heard of them before they started sending me their newsletter. I'd never bothered to read it, but now that I know what it is, I might start reading it.