Month: September 2014

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Sports as a liberal art

Students come to Hillsdale College, in large part, because of the excellent liberal arts education that the college provides. We read about ancient Greece and medieval England. We study the make-up of a molecule and the anatomy of the cell. We learn how to translate “The Aeneid” and calculate the slope of a tangent line...

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Ravi Zacharias for commencement speaker

Ravi Zacharias was such a bad student he tried to kill himself. At the age of 17, weighed down by academic failures and an inability to deal with the consequences, a young Ravi guzzled packets of poison stolen from his school’s chemistry lab. Yet he survived. While lying in the hospital during his recovery, his...

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The gift of giving back

It is only the love of others, not our own merit or worth, that allows us to live and learn here at Hillsdale for four years. Please understand that I do not intend to demean the hard work that many students put in to pay for this education. Working for a paycheck that you will...

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Hillsdale could use a little more socialism

Two concerned economists — both calling for economic reform, advocating the rights of small business owners, and decrying crony capitalism — engaged in a fierce debate hosted by Enactus on Friday. Both voiced disgust for Wall Street corruption. Both supported worker’s rights, fair working conditions, and fair wages. Both think the current socioeconomic system is...

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Hillary Clinton’s Benghazi bugaboo

The frenzied media continues to wonder why Hillary Clinton will not announce her run for president. But the answer is obvious. The clamor erupted as the former first lady went on a book tour that looked a lot like a campaign tour. Last week, Jon Stewart on “The Daily Show” mocked Hillary and the media...