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Clarence Thomas shares our mission

Once the speech has ended, the caps and gowns have been doffed, and parents have been tearfully embraced, Hillsdale students often begin to subject their commencement speaker to harsh criticism. Few things are nearer to our hearts than debate, and the relative merits of our speaker are fair game. Past commencement speakers have asked the...

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Encountering Israel on its own terms

Twisted copper sits on the floor, shining under studio lights. Is it a fold of her dress? A section of arm? It’s hard to tell when you can’t see the rest of her, but the remaining pieces are scattered across the world. The exhibit is titled “We the People,” after the main piece by artist...

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The Holy Land is not our own

Historian Herbert Butterfield paints a portrait of historical study that compels its students to embrace the complexity of an idea, person, or event by exercising an “imaginative sympathy.” This sympathy seeks to understand rather than define a thing by collecting particularities rather than judgments. As I continue to reflect upon the moments and memories that...

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Political crises, real and imaginary

“They encircle me with words of hate.” Israel lives the lament of the psalmist, 8 million people surrounded by enemies. Across the northwest border, the rockets of Hezbollah face Jerusalem. In the northeast, al-Qaida clings to its piece of shattered Syria. Jordan, sometime friend but former enemy, weak to external pressure, lies in the east....

Stop worrying about ‘Frankenfood’
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Stop worrying about ‘Frankenfood’

If environmental activists decide nearly 20 years of research is not sufficient to back a decision, perhaps it is a good thing they aren’t the ones making the decision. After a long struggle upstream, the Food and Drug Administration approved genetically engineered salmon on Nov. 19 — the first GE animal to be declared safe...