I remember conversing with a friend about bananas several weeks ago, munching and speculating about where our bananas come from. Completely mundane, yet apparently memorable. But I can’t remember anything that I saw on social media yesterday. In my 36 minutes on Twitter, six on Facebook, and five on Snapchat (Thanks, iPhone Screen Time), I...
If the polling proves accurate, Michigan voters will soon approve a recreational marijuana ballot proposal. Marijuana support has become not only socially acceptable, but in vogue, uniting conservatives, liberals, and libertarians; hip politicians and stoned citizenry. Indeed, despite federal and state bans, fans of the drug are ubiquitous — even pious Hillsdale College is home...
History unites every academic subject. “It helps to break down the dividers between the disciplines of science, medicine, philosophy, art, music,” says David McCullough, one of America’s greatest historians. “It’s all part of the human story and ought to be seen as such.” In this way, history does not merely unite academia, it offers substantive...
Members of the Hillsdale College chess club performed well at a tournament Saturday. The tournament, sanctioned by the U.S. Chess Federation and held in Toledo, Ohio, was formatted in the “Swiss system,” in which players who win their first match play other winners, and losers play losers. Unlike a simple bracket, the system allows all...
Inside a former storage closet in the Knorr Student Center, Mary Margaret Peter ’14 is working hard, having altered the space to accommodate her and three part-time interns. She is working for Automated Logistics Systems, or ALS. The supply-chain management company began its relationship with Hillsdale College last year, when its vice president of business...