Michael Anton | After the Flight 93 Election

After the Flight 93 Election: The Vote that Saved America and What We Still Have to Lose

Michael Anton, lecturer and research fellow at Hillsdale College’s Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship, received a B.A. from the University of California at Davis, an M.A.L.A. from St. John’s College, and an M.A. in government from Claremont Graduate University. Prior to joining Hillsdale College, he served in the Trump administration as Deputy Assistant to the President for Strategic Communications. He has written for numerous publications, including The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and the Claremont Review of Books, and he is the author of After the Flight 93 Election: The Vote that Saved America and What We Still Have to Lose.

Matthew Spalding is associate vice president and dean for Hillsdale College in Washington, D.C., where he oversees the operations of the Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship as well as Hillsdale’s academic and educational programs in the nation’s capital. He received his B.A. from Claremont McKenna College, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in government from the Claremont Graduate School. He is a senior fellow at the Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship and Political Philosophy, and serves on the board of the Steamboat Institute. He is the author or co-author of several books, including We Still Hold These Truths: Rediscovering Our Principles, Reclaiming Our Future.

Beginning in 2010, and coinciding with the opening of Hillsdale College’s Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship on Capitol Hill, the College has hosted an annual Constitution Day Celebration in Washington, D.C. to commemorate the signing of the U.S. Constitution on September 17, 1787.

The program—which features speeches, debates, and roundtable discussions—explores the continuing relevance of the Founders’ Constitution for American politics today.

Hillsdale College is an independent institution of higher learning founded in 1844 by men and women “grateful to God for the inestimable blessings” resulting from civil and religious liberty and “believing that the diffusion of learning is essential to the perpetuity of these blessings.” It pursues the stated object of the founders: “to furnish all persons who wish, irrespective of nation, color, or sex, a literary, scientific, [and] theological education” outstanding among American colleges “and to combine with this such moral and social instruction as will best develop the minds and improve the hearts of its pupils.” As a nonsectarian Christian institution, Hillsdale College maintains “by precept and example” the immemorial teachings and practices of the Christian faith.

The College also considers itself a trustee of our Western philosophical and theological inheritance tracing to Athens and Jerusalem, a heritage finding its clearest expression in the American experiment of self-government under law.

By training the young in the liberal arts, Hillsdale College prepares students to become leaders worthy of that legacy. By encouraging the scholarship of its faculty, it contributes to the preservation of that legacy for future generations. By publicly defending that legacy, it enlists the aid of other friends of free civilization and thus secures the conditions of its own survival and independence.