Alumnus Nate Steinmeyer encourages students to excavate the Holy Land. Courtesy | Nate Steinmeyer Few things connect you to the past the way excavating does. Whether you are interested in prehistoric peoples, the biblical story, or the Roman Empire, the joy of discovery is incredible and life changing. I remember the first time I held an...
Author: Nathan Steinmeyer (Nathan Steinmeyer)
Hillsdale leaves the Judeo out of Judeo-Christian
Here at Hillsdale, the Judeo-Christian Greco-Roman heritage is a big deal. But something has slipped by unnoticed: Where in our curriculum or on campus do you find anything about the Jewish side of that heritage? Once a year the religion department offers an Old Testament class, and every fall we bring in a lecturer or...
America is the only sane Western nation remaining
I, like most of my fellow Hillsdale students, grew up hearing about Europe’s — and the Left’s — deep-seated hatred of capitalism, the right to bear arms, and everything else. When I was a kid I could never completely understand the reasons for this hatred. Now that I am studying abroad, and have had the...
Netanyahu is an ally, not an enemy
President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have always been at one another’s throats. In a recent interview, Obama stated that Netanyahu’s rhetoric during Israel’s national elections was such that it had started “to erode democracy.” All of this raises the question: Who is really the aggressor in this international feud? Last week, the...