Beyond belief: Faith is not for rock-heads
(Aug. 31, Hillyer column in special section on faith in T-P/Advocate) “This is not a ‘dumb rock!’” Georgetown University chemistry professor Joseph Earley had just dropped a hand-sized pebble, with […]
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Georgetown dishonors WWII hero Karski, who blew whistle on the Holocaust
(January 26) On Sunday [Jan. 21] , I watched the movie Remember This, a remarkable tribute to former Georgetown University professor Jan Karski, a messenger for the Polish Underground who […]
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Punish Harvard, G.U., and other schools denying free speech
(Official Washington Examiner editorial, Sept. 11): University administrations still aren’t getting the message that colleges should be bastions of free inquiry. If they want to avoid losing big money in […]
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Dreyfuss against ‘wokeness,” Georgetown for it (badly)
Richard Dreyfuss blasts Academy Award racial quotas (May 8): Academy Award -winning actor Richard Dreyfuss is certainly no conservative, but he offered pointed criticisms late last week of the identity politics […]
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R.I.P. to Dick Williams, legendary newsman and wonderful guy
(Jan. 28) Newspaperman Dick Williams helped publicize football legend Gale Sayers, played basketball in Madison Square Garden, inadvertently helped launch Bill Clinton toward the presidency, and spent a memorable 24 […]
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SPECIAL: The John Thompson I covered at Georgetown
Coach John Thompson Jr., who died Monday two days short of his 79th birthday, was a flawed man, but one of the greatest men I’ve ever met. I had the […]
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Patrick Ewing, mensch
Special comment by Quin Hillyer; My alma mater, Georgetown University, made waves this week when it hired NBA Hall of Famer and Georgetown legend Patrick Ewing as its new head […]
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‘Exorcist’ author thought grace trumps evil
By Quin Hillyer at PJ Media; William Peter Blatty, the author of The Exorcist who died Thursday at age 89…He took his faith very seriously. And while many remember his […]
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I defended free speech at Georgetown
by Quin Hillyer; Last week, the Georgetown College Republicans, helped by Young America’s Foundation, was kind enough to host me for a speech defending free speech on college campuses, against […]
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Georgetown exemplifies decline in higher education
Last Friday’s roundup included a sad item about a stunningly misguided editorial at my old college paper, the Georgetown Hoya. I had hoped that would be the end of it. […]
