In 1995, the Hillsdale College business office placed an ad in the newspaper for an accounting assistant. Carole Jacobus saw the ad and decided to apply. She had taken business classes at Spring Arbor University and moved to Hillsdale when she married. Jacobus is retiring tomorrow after 19 faithful years of service. Her 19 years...
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February 12, 2015July 12, 2022Opinions
How to think about marriage
It was a delight to see such a large turnout for the recent debate on marriage. The whole event, including the coverage in the Collegian, was a model of civil discourse. We write to clarify four points about the conjugal view of marriage. First, as a comprehensive union of lover and beloved, marriage distinctively unites...
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February 12, 2015July 12, 2022Opinions
Why our marriage dialogue failed
The phrase “political dialogue” is, in common American usage, criminally broad. To us, a political dialogue is simply any political conversation in which diverse viewpoints get time to state their case. True dialogue involves the consideration not of ideas only, but also of the persons who hold them. The distinction matters only rarely, but when...
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February 12, 2015July 12, 2022Opinions
Welcome changes to the family
Few social institutions have undergone as radical change as the family in recent years, and few social changes have been met with as much controversy. Many conservatives claim that there has been an immoral destruction of the “traditional” family in the last few decades. But the reality is that the social institution we call “the...
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February 12, 2015July 12, 2022Opinions
What Republicans can do about Obamacare
The second enrollment period for Obamacare ends on Feb. 15. Are you covered? If you are holding out in the hope that Obamacare will be repealed by the newly-elected Republican Congress, I have bad news for you: It won’t. Obamacare, according to the raw data, has resulted in a net total of 8.5 million more...