The Hill · Feb 20, 2026 · Collected from RSS
If our national defense depends on intellectual insulation rather than intellectual rigor, we have a much bigger problem than any campus could create.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth criticized the “godless” left and foreign ideologies while defending “Western Christian” ideas and traditions Thursday night at a Christian communicators conference in Nashville, Tenn. “Gone is godless and divisive DEI [diversity, equity and inclusion], gone is gender-bending equity and quotas, gone is climate change worship to a false God. We are...
Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security The Big Story Christian nationalist pastor preached at Pentagon The pastor delivered a sermon at Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's request, sparking pushback. AP Photo/Alex Brandon Hegseth invited a controversial Christian nationalist pastor, who has argued that women should...
A controversial Christian nationalist pastor who has argued that women should be denied the right to vote led a worship service at the Pentagon this week at the invitation of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. Doug Wilson delivered a 15-minute sermon Tuesday as part of a monthly Christian worship series started by Hegseth at the Department...
Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security The Big Story Hegseth takes military culture war to civilian universities Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is expanding his culture war into academia, threatening to pull service members’ tuition assistance at potentially dozens of top colleges and universities he views...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is expanding his culture war into academia, threatening to pull service members’ tuition assistance at potentially dozens of top colleges and universities he views as biased against the armed forces. The move is setting off alarm bells in the military and academic communities, who worry about cutting off a key pipeline...
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