Year: 2014

Last week, Emily Runge responded (“West’s political solution goes in the wrong direction,” Nov. 6) to my original article (“The unappealing politics of universal rhetoric,” Oct. 30), which had claimed that the intractability of political discourse stems from “rights-talk.” She insightfully highlighted several of my unclear original claims, and I’d like to clarify these by...

During the Civil War, no Northern college sent a greater percentage of soldiers to battle than Hillsdale. So many went willingly that not one student was drafted. According to the Hillsdale Historical Society, Albert Castel wrote that “there were few places in the North, and certainly no campus, where the fire of the Civil War...

5.3 seconds. That’s how much time you save by walking through the bushes between Lane and Kendall instead of following the sidewalk around the Civil War memorial. (I know because I timed it.) It should go without saying that the honored dead from this school should be remembered with reverence and that students here care...

Recently, I attended two concerts of the college’s music program: A two-piano/four-hand performance by Kristi Gautsche and Debbi Wyse, and a performance by the faculty woodwind quintet. A most unusual but refreshing phenomenon followed both of these performances: Hearty applause from a seated audience — and no standing ovation. I enjoyed both concerts and thought...