This fall marks the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation, and an interdenominational group of faculty is providing a lecture series to commemorate the event and to educate students on the key ideas and events that changed Europe forever. “Regardless of whether you are Protestant, Catholic, or even a non-Christian, I think everyone on campus...
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Of free markets and music: Ivan Pongracic
Some know him for his libertarian rants in economics classes, others know him by his surf band, the Madeira, which has toured the U.S. and Italy and released six CDs since 2004. Ivan Pongracic was born in 1969 in Zagreb, Yugoslavia, a country run by communist dictator Marshal Tito at the time. Pongracic’s parents worked...
Allegro and laughter
Laughter fills the vast expanse of McNamara Rehearsal Hall, bouncing off stacks of chairs, bleachers, paneled walls, and floor-to-ceiling window panes. Stray rays of sunlight escape from unhappy clouds and reflect off the metallic surfaces of a bassoon, a clarinet, a flute, a French horn, and an oboe — tools of the trade for the...
Visiting professor makes his mark: Markman selected as chief justice of Michigan Supreme Court
In 1993, Professor of Politics Mickey Craig received a letter from George H.W. Bush’s outgoing U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan. It was Stephan Markman wanting to know if he could teach Constitutional Law at Hillsdale College. “He wrote to us, I can’t remember to whom he wrote, and it ended up on...
Praxis speaker says Bitcoin will die
Economist William J. Luther said he doesn’t think the dollar will be challenged by the Bitcoin or any other digital currency any time soon.