Higher education has dominated the headlines this year. From drastic funding cuts to threats of deaccreditation at some of America’s most prestigious universities, the status quo of higher ed is being disrupted by the federal government—sparking reactions left, right, and center.

With the entry of Nate Morris into the 2026 Kentucky Senate Republican Primary race, the salvos back and forth between all the major candidates and their surrogates are in full force. The goal being to point out the wart on your opponent before someone sees the boil on your face.

“When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation…..” So opens our nation’s founding political document signed 249 years ago this July 4.