From the Hillsdale Current, News and Happenings from Hillsdale College, April 11, 2026:

Fine by me, but why doesn’t that turn Hillsdale College into a military target? If the United States and Israel can blow up or shoot up university campuses throughout Palestine–both Gaza and the West Bank–for whatever military associations they see (or claim to see) there, and do the same in Iran, then whatever rule of engagement permits the targeting of Palestinian and Iranian institutions of higher education should likewise permit the wholesale destruction of comparable American and Israeli ones, like Hillsdale.

You don’t want to be woke? Then don’t complain when you wake up amidst rubble. And don’t ask for sympathy, either. But if you invite the military onto your campus, and boast about your specifically non-woke military valor for doing so, then you’ve voluntarily militarized your campus and turned everyone on it (or in the vicinity) into a human shield waiting to get shot or blown up. You may not be woke, but you made your decision with open eyes. If bombs or bullets shut those eyes for good, at least you’ll die knowing why. Good riddance.

Here’s the Fox Business segment that elaborates on the preceding item. Hillsdale President Larry Arnn is paraphrased as saying: “It shouldn’t be difficult to figure out what side of this war you’re on.” That’s right. It isn’t.

The preceding quote is the blurb for the article, which charitably cleans up what Arnn actually says in the interview. What he says is totally incoherent: “Whatever you think about the war,” he claims, “it shouldn’t be very difficult to figure out what side you’re on.”

Whatever you think? Suppose that you regard the war as an unjust campaign of aggression, treachery, and lies. Arnn’s claim implies that that doesn’t matter. The war is unjust? You’re obliged to support it anyway. So an unjust war becomes just, as if by moral magic, and injustice becomes a moral obligation, just as it is for Machiavelli, Nietzsche, and Milton’s Satan. These are the people who sit around bragging about their knowledge of “the Western Tradition.” Maybe start with Aristotle’s Metaphysics IV.3? A war can’t be just and non-just at the same time, not even at Hillsdale College. American Exceptionalism ends where the laws of logic begin.