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Spalding first Kirby Center endowed chair
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Spalding first Kirby Center endowed chair

Matthew Spalding, associate vice president and director of the Allan P. Kirby Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship in Washington, D.C., was named the center’s first endowed chair this month. Hillsdale College Provost David Whalen said the college recognized Spalding with the position of Allan P. Kirby Jr. endowed chair for his excellence as...

Hillsdale’s founding role in the UFO craze
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Hillsdale’s founding role in the UFO craze

Most people remember Gerald Ford as the president who pardoned Nixon — few know he was once a UFO investigator. Ford was a United States congressman representing Michigan’s fifth district when people all over Michigan started reporting unidentified flying objects in March 1966. Sightings occurred first in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Dexter, Michigan, on March...

The Persistence of Dalí
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The Persistence of Dalí

Picture a gaggle of gangly elephants gyrating about on a desert landscape as a lone man, naked and unprotected, attempts to resist the gilded promises they offer him. This is not a metaphor for how the Republican Party’s 2016 presidential victory — which at first appeared to free the American people from their Bush and...