The death of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez presents the country with an opportunity to reverse the economic and social policies its leader pursued incessantly. If last year’s surprisingly close presidential challenge by Henrique Radonski is any indication, Venezuela may be ready to try Adam Smith’s prescription of “peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice.”...
At 11:47 a.m. yesterday, Sen. Rand Paul began talking about the unconstitutionality of drone strikes. Twelve hours later, as we write, he hasn’t stopped speaking to the majestic Senate chamber. Decorous but insistent, Paul has managed to make the senate filibuster, something that usually looks pathetic, seem inspiring instead. The Senate rules are complex, but...
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet.” Not quite. While it’s true that it took watching “Warm Bodies” for me to realize that what “Romeo and Juliet” had always been missing was zombies, the two don’t quite smell the same. “Warm Bodies” is a...
While theater programs across the country busy themselves with productions of well-known shows such as “Grease” or “Annie,” the Hillsdale Tower Players reject the norm and undertake instead a production set in that bastion of republicanism and aqueducts, Ancient Rome. Such a choice is not surprising in an institution where the students discuss ancient philosophers...
Consider the phrase: “city upon a hill.” Is your first thought of Jesus’ metaphor regarding the church in Matthew 5:14? Do you think of John Winthrop’s address to his fellow Puritans on the Arbella as they made their way to the new world in 1630? Or do your thoughts turn to America as a nation?...