Harvard vs. Hillsdale: It’s cultural suicide to sic Washington on the Left’s institutions

By Timothy P. Carney

Published December 5, 2017 6:55pm ET

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Harvard vs. Hillsdale: It’s cultural suicide to sic Washington on the Left’s institutions — Weaponizing the tax code against the Left's preferred middle institutions is a mistake. Their institutions have more money and can last longer than ours, and the Left will always be more ruthless in their use of big government. And to chip away at the middle institutions -- whether they be Harvard or Hillsdale, colleges or churches -- is the most unconservative thing one can do with government power. (AP Photos, Wikimedia Commons) | Cliff Owen

If you followed politics over the weekend, you may have for the first time heard of Hillsdale College on Friday night. Democratic Senators, led by Chuck Schumer and Jeff Merkley, went to the Senator floor and slandered the small Michigan College, lying about it in the most vicious ways.

Others can debunk the lies about Hillsdale — and if a columnist spent his columns showing senators to be liars, he would have time for little else.

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