Imprimis

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Imprimis was founded in 1972 by Clark Durant and George Roche III{{Cite web|url=https://www.c-span.org/video/?286857-1/qa-larry-arnn|title=Q&A with Larry Arnn |website=C-span.org|access-date=25 December 2021}} as a free alumni service.{{cite news |title=Beyond the Wall Pennant: New, Improved Ways To Keep School Ties Strong – and Alumni Writing Checks |author=Elaine Underwood |newspaper=Brandweek |date=1991-11-11 }} Lew Rockwell was an early editor.{{citation needed|date=April 2022}} Hillsdale's then-President George Roche III initially sent 1,000 issues to "friends of the College."{{cite news |title=Imprimis |author=Daniel J. Williams |newspaper=Hillsdale Collegian |date=2008-04-10 |url=http://media.www.hillsdalecollegian.com/media/storage/paper1270/news/2008/04/10/News/Imprimus-3316940.shtml |access-date=2010-05-13 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090223193718/http://media.www.hillsdalecollegian.com/media/storage/paper1270/news/2008/04/10/News/Imprimus-3316940.shtml |archive-date=2009-02-23 }} The publication improved Hillsdale's name recognition and did "wonders for out-of-state enrollment" as its circulation "ballooned." By the 1980s, Imprimis and Hillsdale were "closely associated with intellectual ferment on the right".{{cite news|author=Morgan|first=Bob|date=January 4, 1981|title=Conservatives: A Well-Financed Network|newspaper=The Washington Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1981/01/04/conservatives-a-well-financed-network/a9bf1eb4-596d-4ad1-800a-8f4374a8013e/}}

Imprimis{{'s}} circulation has grown to 5.5 million as of 2021. It is a free publication but encourages donations. Distribution is no longer limited to alumni.{{Citation needed|date=May 2022}}

Imprimis{{'s}} content consists almost entirely of edited transcripts of speeches delivered by conservative movement leaders at Hillsdale-sponsored events.

In 1991, the dean at Boston University, H. Joachim Maitre, was accused of plagiarizing an Imprimis article by Michael Medved in a commencement address, which led to Maitre's resignation.{{cite news |title=For Dean at Boston U., a Question of Plagiarism |author=Fox Butterfield |newspaper=The New York Times |date=1991-07-03 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/07/03/us/for-a-dean-at-boston-u-a-question-of-plagiarism.html |access-date=2010-05-13 }}{{cite news |title=Boston Dean Quits In Plagiarism Case |author=Mary B. W. Tabor |newspaper=The New York Times |date=1991-07-13 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/07/13/us/boston-dean-quits-in-plagiarism-case.html |access-date=2010-05-13 }}

Contributors to Imprimis have included Jeb Bush,{{cite web |url=http://www.hillsdale.edu/news/imprimis/archive/issue.asp?year=1997&month=04 |title=Virtue and the Free Society |author=Jeb Bush |date=April 1997 |work=Imprimis |publisher=Hillsdale College |access-date=2011-03-14}}{{cite web |url=http://www.hillsdale.edu/news/imprimis/archive/issue.asp?year=1995&month=06 |title=Deinventing Government |author=Jeb Bush |date=June 1995 |work=Imprimis |publisher=Hillsdale College |access-date=2011-03-14}} Ward Connerly,{{cite web |url=http://www.hillsdale.edu/news/imprimis/archive/issue.asp?year=2001&month=08 |title=Warriors of Freedom |author=Ward Connerly |date=August 2001 |work=Imprimis |publisher=Hillsdale College |access-date=2011-03-14}}{{cite web |url=http://www.hillsdale.edu/news/imprimis/archive/issue.asp?year=2000&month=02 |title=The Content of Our Children's Character |author=Ward Connerly |date=February 2000 |work=Imprimis |publisher=Hillsdale College |access-date=2011-03-14}}{{cite web |url=http://www.hillsdale.edu/news/imprimis/archive/issue.asp?year=1998&month=02 |title=Back to Equality |author=Ward Connerly |date=February 1998 |work=Imprimis |publisher=Hillsdale College |access-date=2011-03-14}} Dinesh D'Souza,{{cite web |url=http://www.hillsdale.edu/news/imprimis/archive/issue.asp?year=2008&month=11 |title=Created Equal: How Christianity Shaped the West |author=Dinesh D'Souza |date=November 2008 |work=Imprimis |publisher=Hillsdale College |access-date=2011-03-14}}{{cite web |url=http://www.hillsdale.edu/news/imprimis/archive/issue.asp?year=2001&month=09 |title=Multiculturalism: Fact or Threat? |author=Dinesh D'Souza |date=September 2001 |work=Imprimis |publisher=Hillsdale College |access-date=2011-03-14}} Milton Friedman,{{cite web |url=http://www.hillsdale.edu/news/imprimis/archive/issue.asp?year=2006&month=07 |title=Free to Choose: A Conversation with Milton Friedman |author=Milton Friedman |date=July 2006 |work=Imprimis |publisher=Hillsdale College |access-date=2011-03-14}} Victor Davis Hanson,{{cite journal |author=Victor Davis Hanson|author-link=Victor Davis Hanson|title=Imperialism: Lessons From History |journal=Imprimis |date=July–August 2023 |volume=52 |issue=7/8 |pages=1–6 |publisher=Hillsdale College |location=|issn=}} Jack Kemp,{{cite web |url=http://www.hillsdale.edu/news/imprimis/archive/issue.asp?year=1998&month=07 |title=Rules to Live by on and off the Playing Field |author=Jack Kemp |date=July 1998 |work=Imprimis |publisher=Hillsdale College |access-date=2011-03-14}}{{cite web |url=http://www.hillsdale.edu/news/imprimis/archive/issue.asp?year=1994&month=08 |title=A Cultural Renaissance |author=Jack Kemp |date=August 1994 |work=Imprimis |publisher=Hillsdale College |access-date=2011-03-14}} Irving Kristol,{{cite web |url=http://www.hillsdale.edu/news/imprimis/archive/issue.asp?year=1973&month=04 |title=Utopianism, Ancient and Modern |author=Irving Kristol |date=April 1973 |work=Imprimis |publisher=Hillsdale College |access-date=2011-03-14}} Rush Limbaugh,{{cite web |url=http://www.hillsdale.edu/news/imprimis/archive/issue.asp?year=2009&month=01 |title=Do Conservatives Need to Get Beyond Reagan? |author=Rush Limbaugh |date=January 2009 |work=Imprimis |publisher=Hillsdale College |access-date=2011-03-14}} Bjorn Lomborg,{{cite journal |author-first=Bjorn|author-last=Lomborg|author-link=Bjorn Lomborg|title=Thinking Smartly About Climate Change |journal=Imprimis |url= https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/thinking-smartly-about-climate-change/|date=April–May 2023 |volume=52 |issue=4/5 |pages=1–7 |publisher=Hillsdale College |location=Hillsdale, MI |issn=0277-8432}} David McCullough,{{cite web |url=http://www.hillsdale.edu/news/imprimis/archive/issue.asp?year=2006&month=05 |title=A Man Worth Knowing |author=David McCullough |date=May 2006 |work=Imprimis |publisher=Hillsdale College |access-date=2011-03-14}}{{cite web |url=http://www.hillsdale.edu/news/imprimis/archive/issue.asp?year=2005&month=04 |title=Knowing History and Knowing Who We Are |author=David McCullough |date=April 2005 |work=Imprimis |publisher=Hillsdale College |access-date=2011-03-14}} Richard John Neuhaus,{{cite web |url=https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/moral-leadership-in-postsecular-america/ |title=Moral Leadership in Post-Secular America |author=Richard John Neuhaus |date=July 1982 |work=Imprimis |publisher=Hillsdale College |access-date=2011-03-14}} Sarah Palin,{{cite web |url=http://www.hillsdale.edu/news/imprimis/archive/issue.asp?year=2008&month=09 |title=Alaska's Promise of the Nation |author=Sarah Palin |date=September 2008 |work=Imprimis |publisher=Hillsdale College |access-date=2011-03-14}} Ronald Reagan,{{cite web |url=http://www.hillsdale.edu/news/imprimis/archive/issue.asp?year=1978&month=01 |title=Whatever Happened to Free Enterprise? |author=Ronald Reagan |date=January 1978 |work=Imprimis |publisher=Hillsdale College |access-date=2011-03-14}} Jason L. Riley,{{cite journal |last1=Riley |first1=Jason L. |title=The Continuing Importance of Thomas Sowell |url=https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/continuing-importance-thomas-sowell/|journal=Imprimis |date=March 2022 |volume=51 |issue=3 |pages=1–7 |access-date=11 April 2022 |publisher=Hillsdale College |issn=0277-8432}} Margaret Thatcher,{{cite web |url=http://www.hillsdale.edu/news/imprimis/archive/issue.asp?year=2001&month=04 |title=All Beginnings are Hopeful: Challenges Facing the 21st Century |author=Margaret Thatcher |date=April 2001 |work=Imprimis |publisher=Hillsdale College |access-date=2011-03-14}}{{cite web |url=http://www.hillsdale.edu/news/imprimis/archive/issue.asp?year=1995&month=03 |title=The Moral Foundations of Society |author=Margaret Thatcher |date=March 1995 |work=Imprimis |publisher=Hillsdale College |access-date=2011-03-14}} Clarence Thomas,{{cite web |url=http://www.hillsdale.edu/news/imprimis/archive/issue.asp?year=2007&month=10 |title=A Conversation with Justice Clarence Thomas |author=Clarence Thomas |date=October 2007 |work=Imprimis |publisher=Hillsdale College |access-date=2011-03-14}}{{cite web |url=http://www.hillsdale.edu/news/imprimis/archive/issue.asp?year=2000&month=11 |title=Never Give In |author=Clarence Thomas |date=November 2000 |work=Imprimis |publisher=Hillsdale College |access-date=2011-03-14}}{{cite web |url=http://www.hillsdale.edu/news/imprimis/archive/issue.asp?year=1994&month=06 |title=Education: The Second Door to Freedom |author=Clarence Thomas |date=June 1994 |work=Imprimis |publisher=Hillsdale College |access-date=2011-03-14}} and Tom Wolfe.{{cite web |url=http://www.hillsdale.edu/news/imprimis/archive/issue.asp?year=1984&month=01 |title=Idea Fashions of the Eighties: After Marx, What? |author=Tom Wolfe |date=January 1984 |work=Imprimis |publisher=Hillsdale College |access-date=2011-03-14}}

Imprimis has been praised by conservatives. For instance, Walter E. Williams wrote that Imprimis is "Hillsdale's way of sharing the ideas of the many distinguished speakers invited to their campus. And, I might add, Hillsdale College is one of the few colleges where students get a true liberal arts education, absent the nonsense seen on many campuses."{{cite news |title=Property rights |author=Walter E. Williams |newspaper=Townhall.com |date=2007-01-31 |url=http://townhall.com/columnists/WalterEWilliams/2007/01/31/property_rights |access-date=2010-05-13 }}

In contrast, Mark W. Powell, writing in the Toledo Blade, criticized Imprimis for eschewing fact-checking and failing to issue editorial corrections, which he described as part of a pattern of "cavalierism with facts to drive political points."{{cite news |title=Hillsdale disappoints in competence, conduct |author=Mark W. Powell |newspaper=The Toledo Blade |date=2010-04-18 |url=http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100418/OPINION04/100419741 |access-date=2010-05-13 }} Jordan Smith of Salon offered similar criticisms, citing a piece by Republican representative Paul Ryan that he said repeated a "widely discredited assertion" regarding health care rationing under Obama's health insurance reforms. Kevin D. Williamson at National Review argued that speech transcripts ordinarily aren't fact-checked or verified for the truth of their claims.{{cite news |title=Exciting New Developments in Conservative Anthropology |author=Kevin D. Williamson |newspaper=National Review |date=2010-05-26 |url=http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MmZiNGQ2YTMwNDhhZjBmMmY4NmM0M2RiYTUwNGM4MmU= |access-date=2010-06-09 }}

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