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Kids Today

There’s a good article in the NYT today on the 64 paid interns who are working at the Heritage Foundation this summer. They even have a dorm complex for these kids. I wonder if they’ve split into conservative and libertarian factions yet. That’s what always happened when I was in college — the Burke and Kirk club vs. the von Mises and Hayek types. Likely late-night conversation topic: Is President Bush a traitor to conservatism? Playing in the background: the new Coldplay album.

John J. Miller, the national correspondent for National Review and host of its Great Books podcast, is the director of the Dow Journalism Program at Hillsdale College. He is the author of A Gift of Freedom: How the John M. Olin Foundation Changed America.
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