Articles by Frank Hill

Would you want to be in a political party that hated your guts?  Or any organization really. The moment other members of any organization start criticizing, ostracizing or flat-out attacking you in public and in […]

Something’s got to be done about Social Security.   In France, citizens are taking it to the streets to protest President Emmanuel Macron’s efforts to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64. It is almost […]

When political partisans do something really out of the ordinary, they usually pay for it in spades down the road and then wish they had never done it.  New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg may […]

The scariest professor I had in college at UNC was Dr. Daniels.  He taught French 40 ― existential literature. I hated it.  Everyone else loved him. He had a reputation for being lenient in grading […]

I was conducting a class recently for some bright undergrads about running for public elective office and we used the state government budget to learn about what gets funded, how it gets funded, why it […]

Best-selling author Douglas Murray spoke at the UNC Free Speech Alliance kickoff event last week co-sponsored by the Common Sense Society on the Chapel Hill campus. The title of his address was “Free Speech in […]

Capitol Hill staffers and campaign managers are busy people. Talking in short-hand by referring to one line in a crazy movie or comedy skit saves time and effort for all involved. Mental images convey far […]

Rochelle Gurstein wrote “The Repeal of Reticence” in 1996 which detailed ― and implicitly bemoaned ― the loss of personal privacy due mostly to intrusive prurient journalism.  “(Reverence for privacy)” she wrote, “should be understood […]