HILLSDALE COLLEGE IS ANOTHER WINGNUT HATCHERY

After listening to freaks like Limbaugh, Hannity, Beck and Mark Levin promote it, I should've known that it wasn't any good and Daniel Henninger of the WSJ in his absurd op-ed, "Bring Back the Robber Barons," provides some evidence.

"Robber baron" became a term of derision to generations of American students after many earnest teachers made them read Matthew Josephson's long tome of the same name about the men whose enterprise drove the American industrial age from 1861 to 1901.

The antidote to Josephson's book is a small classic by Hillsdale College historian Burton W. Folsom called "The Myth of the Robber Barons: A New Look at the Rise of Big Business in America" (Young America's Foundation). Prof. Folsom's core insight is to divide the men of that age into market entrepreneurs and political entrepreneurs.