October 11, 2018

Russell Kirk’s widow keeps his thought and spirit alive at the family home Mecosta, Mich. The morning after Russell Kirk died in 1994, John Engler visited the Kirk family in rural Michigan. He was not only a governor who wanted to pay his respects to one of his state’s most notable writers and thinkers, but…

September 13, 2018

Duncan G. Stroik designs and builds churches that are solid, inspiring, and timeless South Bend, Ind. ‘Have you ever walked into a church and thought that it looks like a movie theater — something more secular than sacred?” asks the architect Duncan G. Stroik. He’s talking about the churches built over the last 50 or…

July 12, 2018

Patrick Morrisey runs for the Senate in a politically transformed West Virginia Ripley, W.Va.   On the Fourth of July, as Patrick Morrisey marched down Main Street with supporters who waved red-white-and-blue placards for his Senate campaign, someone on a porch shouted at him: “New Jersey!” It was a putdown — an accusation that Morrisey…

June 21, 2018

On the wisdom and exploits of Eddie Rickenbacker ‘To become a good pilot and remain one, never forget that an airplane is like a rattlesnake,” wrote Eddie Rickenbacker to his son in 1951. “You must keep your mind and eye on it constantly or it will bite you when you least expect it, which could…

About Me

John J. Miller lives on a dirt road in rural Michigan. He is director of the Dow Journalism Program at Hillsdale College and writes for National Review, the Wall Street Journal, and other publications. His books include The First Assassin, a historical thriller set during the Civil War, The Big Scrum: How Teddy Roosevelt Saved Football, and The Polygamist King: A True Story of Murder, Lust, and Exotic Faith in America. He is the founder and executive director of the Student Free Press Association, a non-profit group best known for its news website, The College Fix. The Chronicle of Higher Education has called Miller “one of the best literary journalists in the country.”