Editor’s note: This paper is a production of the Center for Faith & Public Life. To learn more about the Center, please click here. To view, print, or share the final paper, please click here. And when a long succession … Continue reading
We are inundated with requests for our feedback. Your Walmart receipt asks, “Give Us Feedback.” Your Dunkin receipt offers you a “free classic donut” for your feedback. The requests are so pervasive that I tend to ignore them. I am … Continue reading
Lee S. Wishing III, vice president for student recruitment at Grove City College, testified before the House Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Development to help bring light to a troubling practice in American higher education: unfunded discounting. We invite … Continue reading
Editor’s note: A version of this article first appeared at The American Spectator. “The blood of the martyrs,” said Tertullian, “is the seed of the Church.” Charlie Kirk led a movement, a conservative movement, not a church. We all know … Continue reading
Grove City College Opening Convocation Remarks, August 27, 2025 delivered by Grove City College President Bradley J. Lingo ’00 In one of the most dramatic scenes in all human history—hours before the crucifixion—Jesus stands before Pilate. Pilate asks Him two … Continue reading
Editor’s note: This address was given by GCC President Bradley J. Lingo ’00 to the 2025 Faculty Retreat. I walked down my driveway to my mailbox one summer day in the late 1990s. I reached in and pulled out a … Continue reading
The dog days of summer are not typically associated with school, but the summer of 2025 has marked the hundredth anniversary of two pivotal events in the history of American public schools. One is well known but arguably misunderstood. The … Continue reading
These are trying times for American colleges and universities. They face rising costs, a potential reduction in federal funding, grade inflation, the challenge of AI, alleged liberal political and social bias, claims that a college degree is not worth the … Continue reading
One hundred years ago this month, the United States and even the world turned its attention to Dayton, Tennessee, to witness a trial purported to be a showdown between modern science and backwards religion. Despite the widespread media coverage, or … Continue reading
$4.8 million is the NIL (Name, Image, and Likeness) valuation of Cooper Flagg, a freshman Duke basketball player. How is that even possible? In essence, Duke was able to buy the hired gun, Flagg, one of the most highly decorated … Continue reading
My father was a devout Catholic and enormously proud of his Irish heritage. On September 30, 1995, I learned just how much faith and heritage meant to him. That was the day that two storied football programs, the Ohio State Buckeyes and … Continue reading
Editor’s note: This article first appeared at The American Spectator. Few scientific efforts have been so dramatically ruined by politics as climate science. For over 30 years, thousands of climate scientists have pushed the message that the world is in … Continue reading
Mike Rowe, the Dirty Jobs star and host of How America Works, has recently unloaded on Gen Z. Rowe said that the importance of hard work is on the way out, and we have seen the last days of a … Continue reading
Image: (L to R) J. Howard Pew, Charles S. MacKenzie, Ross Foster Ivy League alumni and donors are disgusted and demanding change. They have had enough. The good news is that there is a way forward and it’s buried in a … Continue reading
I used to be an environmentalist. I once wrote that “scientists are right about climate change.” I long opposed logging clear-cuts and excessive drilling. I even voted for the Green Party candidate (gasp!) for president. But this long-time supporter of … Continue reading
Imagine being the new coach of one of the worst Division III football programs in the country. The program sat at zero wins and 20 losses after back-to-back winless seasons heading into the 2016 campaign, which garnered a national ranking … Continue reading
Editor’s note: A version of this article first appeared at National Catholic Register. Henry Kissinger was a legend in foreign policy. Whether you see that impact as positive or negative, for better or worse, depends on where you stand on … Continue reading
Editor’s note: This article first appeared in National Review. Earlier this month the King’s College in New York City announced it was canceling classes for the fall semester, laying off most of its faculty and staff, and struggling to recover … Continue reading
Moral hazard occurs when an agreement people make to act in concert for their mutual benefit results in an incentive for one of them to act immorally. The classic case is insurance. When an insurance company contracts with a homeowner … Continue reading
Editor’s note: This article first appeared at The American Spectator. Karl Marx once famously commented that Hegel wrote that history repeats itself. Marx then supplemented this by noting that this happens the first time as tragedy, the second as farce. … Continue reading
