From Sasse’s X feed: Dear Gator Nation and cherished friends, This isn’t an easy note to write but wanted to give you an update on our family. As many of you know, my wife Melissa suffered an aneurysm and series […]
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Ben Sasse: “Harvard, Princeton, and Yale were originally founded as seminaries. They are seminaries once again.”Â
While I probably wouldn’t call early Harvard, Princeton, and Yale “seminaries,” I take Ben Sasse‘s point. As some of you recall, Sasse left the United States Senate earlier this year and became president of the University of Florida. Here is […]
Will Ben Sasse, the new president of the University of Florida, bow to Ron DeSantis?
Yesterday was former U.S. Senator Ben Sasse’s first day as president of the University of Florida. We are all waiting to see how he will get along with Florida governor Ron DeSantis, especially as it relates to “wokeness.” Here is […]
Students at the University of Florida protest Ben Sasse’s visit
Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse is the sole finalist for the presidency of the University of Florida. Sasse has been a vocal critic of Trump and Trumpism. Court evangelical pastor Robert Jeffress once called him a “disgrace to the Republican Party, […]
Report: Ben Sasse will resign his Senate seat to become president of the University of Florida
Here is CNN: Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska, a prominent voice in the Republican Party who voted to convict former President Donald Trump in his second impeachment trial, plans to resign from the Senate by the end of the year […]
Ben Sasse on “government of the weirdos, by the weirdos and for the weirdos”
In a speech at the Reagan Foundation, the Nebraska senator ripped into the “performance artists” on the far left and the far right. Watch: If you don’t want to watch the speech, read Tom LoBianco’s piece at Yahoo News. A […]
What does the Ketanji Brown Jackson hearing tell us about the state of the Republican Party?
Here is a taste of Washington Post columnist Michael Gerson recent column: Jackson’s main Republican questioners are not focused on qualifications, temperament or even judicial theory. Their clear objective has been to trip up the nominee by asking about the latest Republican culture-war debates. […]
Only six Republican senators voted for a commission to study the worst attack on the U.S. Capitol since the War of 1812
It looks like American historians will need to do the work. John Hope Franklin once called historians “the conscience of the nation.” A Senate vote on a bill to create an independent commission to study the January 6, 2021 insurrection […]