Larry Arnn thinks Donald Trump can beat Hillary Clinton.

That matters because Arnn is easily among the handful of most influential conservative intellectuals in the country. Arnn is the president of Hillsdale College, “the Lantern of the North” I call it, having swiped that designation from Elgin Cathedral, which lies in ruins in the north of Scotland. (It was first burned — and much of Elgin with it — in 1390, by the Wolf of Badenoch. “This was the name given to Alexander Stewart, the younger son of Robert II.” “The Bishop of Moray, Bishop Alexander Bur,” Undiscovered Scotland tells us, “had caused [the Wolf] to to be excommunicated for marital infidelity, and this was his way of getting even.”)