Discourse with others only works if you both share basic assumptions. That point seems to have escaped Garrett West as he wrote last week’s op-ed “Discourse: better than debate.” In the piece, West chided me for portraying, in a previous editorial, the majority of American political science students as progressives, cultivated to become cogs in...
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April 25, 2014July 12, 2022Opinions
Why you should return to your roots
Go back where you came from! Find out where you’re from, and what place served the beginning of your journey in this life. Everyone has a place that she remembers from childhood — a grandparent’s house playroom, a block of a city, or the old garden and hitching post at grandmother’s hose. There are memories...
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April 25, 2014July 12, 2022Opinions
Searching for Life and Light: A conclusion
To immerse oneself in the modern literature of the past century is to come face-to-face with a deeply tragic view of human experience. Though I do not consider myself to be a conscious adherent to many of the values of the West’s intellectual and spiritual heritage, I do consider myself a beneficiary of the stability...
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April 25, 2014July 12, 2022Opinions
So fill to me the parting glass
It was the last day of class the fall of my freshman year. We listened to Dr. Gamble cover the last several documents in the Westerm Heritage Reader and briefly go over what to expect on this first final of our collegiate career. Class finished in the odd solemnity of completion, where we all knew...
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April 24, 2014July 12, 2022Sports
Track to host more than 1,600 athletes at Gina Relays
More than 1,600 track and field athletes will compete in Hillsdale this weekend at the Gina Relays. “It’s at the time of the year when you really start to do well,” Forino said. “This is exactly when all the magic starts happening.” The Gina Relays is the biggest track meet Hillsdale hosts. Despite fears of...