Imprimis

This podcast is the audio version of Imprimis, the free monthly speech digest of Hillsdale College dedicated to educating citizens and promoting civil and religious liberty by covering cultural, economic, political, and educational issues. The content of Imprimis is drawn from speeches delivered at Hillsdale College events. First published in 1972, Imprimis is one of the most widely circulated opinion publications in the nation with over six million subscribers.

Disparate Impact Thinking Is Destroying Our Civilization

January 2024 | VOLUME 53, ISSUE 1An Immigration Crisis Beyond ImaginingTodd Bensman, Center for Immigration StudiesThe following is adapted from a talk delivered on January 22, 2024, at the Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and...

An Immigration Crisis Beyond Imagining

January 2024 | VOLUME 53, ISSUE 1An Immigration Crisis Beyond ImaginingTodd Bensman, Center for Immigration StudiesThe following is adapted from a talk delivered on January 22, 2024, at the Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and...

Lessons From the Great Covid Cover-Up

DECEMBER 2023 | VOLUME 52, ISSUE 12 Lessons From the Great Covid Cover-Up Rand PaulU.S. Senator from Kentucky Author, Deception: The Great Covid Cover-UpThe following is adapted from a talk delivered on November 1, 2023, at the Allan P. Kirby, Jr...

Hillsdale’s Mission and the Politics of Freedom

NOVEMBER 2023 | VOLUME 52, ISSUE 11 Hillsdale’s Mission and the Politics of Freedom Larry P. Arnn President, Hillsdale College The following is adapted from a talk delivered on the Regent Seven Seas Mariner on June 30, 2023, during a Hillsdale...

Why the CIA No Longer Works—and How to Fix It

OCTOBER 2023 | VOLUME 52, ISSUE 10 Why the CIA No Longer Works—and How to Fix It Charles S. Faddis Author, Beyond Repair: The Decline and Fall of the CIA The following is adapted from a talk delivered at Hillsdale College on October 3, 2023, during...

Imperialism: Lessons From History

JULY/AUGUST 2023 | VOLUME 52, ISSUE 7/8 Victor Davis Hanson Wayne and Marcia Buske Distinguished Fellow in History, Hillsdale College. The following is adapted from a talk delivered on the Regent Seven Seas Mariner on June 30, 2023, during a...

The Most Important Decision in Life

JUNE 2023 | VOLUME 52, ISSUE 6 Bishop Robert Baron Founder of Word on Fire Catholic Ministries The following is adapted from a speech delivered on May 13, 2023, at Hillsdale College’s 171st Commencement Ceremony. Free Lifetime Subscription...

Thinking Smartly About Climate Change

APRIL/MAY 2023 | VOLUME 52, ISSUE 4/5 Bjorn Lomborg President of the Copenhagen Consensus Center & a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution The following is adapted from a speech delivered at a Hillsdale College National Leadership Seminar on...

The Biden Economy and How It Could Be Fixed

MARCH 2023 | VOLUME 52, ISSUE 3 The Biden Economy and How It Could Be Fixed Andrew F. Puzder Businessman and Author, The Capitalist Comeback: The Trump Boom and the Left’s Plot to Stop It This issue is adapted from a talk delivered on February 22...

America’s Broken Health Care: Diagnosis and Prescription

FEBRUARY 2023 | VOLUME 52, ISSUE 2 America’s Broken Healthcare: Diagnosis and Prescription John Abramson Author, Sickening: How Big Pharma Broke American Healthcare and How We Can Repair It This issue is adapted from a talk delivered at Hillsdale...