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The idea of socialism is ancient. Organized socialist movements took form in Europe in the nineteenth century, and socialism emerged as a dominant political ideology in many places around the world by the twentieth century. This second CCA of the 2019-2020 academic year, co-sponsored by the Ludwig von Mises Lecture Series, will consider socialism, its practice over time, and its resurgence today. Kimberley Strassel writes the weekly “Potomac Watch” column for The Wall Street Journal, where she is also a member of the editorial board. A graduate of Princeton University, her previous positions at the Journal include news assistant in Brussels, internet reporter in London, commercial real estate reporter in New York, columnist for OpinionJournal.com, and senior editorial page writer. She is a regular contributor to Sunday morning political programs, including Face the Nation and Meet the Press. In 2013, she was a Eugene C. Pulliam Distinguished Visiting Fellow in Journalism at Hillsdale College, and in 2014 she was a recipient of the Bradley Prize. She is the author of The Intimidation Game: How the Left Is Silencing Free Speech and, most recently, Resistance (At All Costs): How Trump Haters Are Breaking America.

Speech by Kristi Noem Speech at Hillsdale College's National Leadership Summit

Sidney Powell has practiced law for many years, primarily in the fifth U.S. circuit court of appeals. This speech is from the Hillsdale College National Leadership Seminar.

Learning is hard work. Hard work requires character. Learning begins in faith. It must move upwards toward the highest thing, unseen at the beginning – God. And freedom is essential to learning. Its principles must be studied and defended. Learning, character, faith, and freedom: these are the inseparable purposes of Hillsdale College.

The word education comes from a Latin word that means to lead forth. Forth is a value-laden term. It raises a question, which way is forth? How do you know you’re going in the right direction? The easy answer in our time is, “It just depends on which way you want to go.” Young people almost always say that today. They’ve been taught to say that. But, that’s the wrong answer. At Hillsdale College, we understand education to be the pursuit of the highest answer to that question. Discovering the right way by reading the greatest books by the greatest minds in history. Coming to see the meaning of three ultimate and related things, the good, the true, and the beautiful. This is the way forth. This is education. www.hillsdale.edu/education

Adam Andrzejewski is the founder and CEO of openthebooks.com, the world's largest database of public sector spending, whether at the federal, state, or local level. Hillsdale College National Leadership Seminars are held in various locations across the country two to three times each year and address issues of politics, economics, and culture.

This lecture was given as part of the April 2018 National Leadership Seminar, "What is American Greatness?" Hillsdale College National Leadership Seminars are held in various locations across the country two to three times each year and address issues of politics, economics, and culture.

Hillsdale College is an independent institution of higher learning founded in 1844 by men and women “grateful to God for the inestimable blessings” resulting from civil and religious liberty and “believing that the diffusion of learning is essential to the perpetuity of these blessings.” It pursues the stated object of the founders: “to furnish all persons who wish, irrespective of nation, color, or sex, a literary, scientific, [and] theological education” outstanding among American colleges “and to combine with this such moral and social instruction as will best develop the minds and improve the hearts of its pupils.” As a nonsectarian Christian institution, Hillsdale College maintains “by precept and example” the immemorial teachings and practices of the Christian faith.

Most colleges and universities are dependent on the government to stay in business. Hillsdale College, in contrast, receives NOT ONE PENNY of its revenue from taxpayer funding. Not even indirectly in the form of student loans and grants.