Connecticut Commentary: Red Notes from a Blue State

Hillsdale College Hillsdale College My wife Andrée and I attended a week’s worth of classes related to the U.S. Constitution from June 23 to June 28 offered at Hillsdale College. The classes, a rare treat, were taught by four of Hillsdale’s accomplished professors: Paul Rahe, Will Morrisey, John Grant, and Joseph Postell, all of them sitting comfortably on the shoulders of the intellectual and philosophical giants to whom we owe the creation of the American Republic and its precocious child, the U.S. Constitution. Hillsdale  offers courses to the general public and distributes its newsletter  Imprimis  at no cost to the reader. I’ve long regarded Imprimis as an indispensable tool in managing mentally our bewildering postmodern age. The college was also offering a like course on Literature from Athens to Oak Park, Illinois, the birthplace of Ernest Hemingway. The literature professor, Whalen Gillespie, conducted a pocket class during which anyone was able to question him on any lite

Biden, Getty images, Alex Wong On June 27, Democrat President Joe Biden and former Republican President Donald Trump met in mortal combat during a “debate” led and moderated by two CNN reporters, Jake Tapper and Dana Bash. Seen through the eyes of the Biden team, the debate was an opportunity for the president to show that he was sharp and on point in defending his nearly four years in office. His campaign had been bedeviled by charges supported by news clips that he was off his game. Throughout the Biden presidency, Republicans had strongly suggested that Biden’s inept policies had led to a disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, a porous southern border, a tripling of the cumulative inflation rate, and many other associated economic, cultural and political disturbances, all of them laid at the door of an incompetent administration that was intent on advancing a new progressive era in American politics. The President Barack Obama administration had begun the effort, and the Biden