Month: February 2015

Postmodern kids in a post-9/11 world, this generation worries more about what our mothers might find on Facebook than what Big Brother could discover in our inbox. That’s according to a January Pew Research poll, which shows 60 percent of young people still support the National Security Agency regardless of its controversial domestic spying program....

Recently, there have been many instances of politics intersecting with the institution of the family. Between the Supreme Court’s imminent ruling on gay marriage and the controversies regarding provision for contraceptives in Obamacare, we are facing critical confrontation on the topics of marriage and reproduction. Those who follow the developments in these fields may also...

Hillsdale College is unique for its refusal to accept federal funding, and also for its statues. The only statue of Margaret Thatcher in North America, for example, is on Hillsdale’s campus. The college honors leaders such as Thatcher, Reagan, and Washington with statues on the school’s Liberty Walk. Positioned on the Quad, in the Union,...

Maybe it’s the community bathrooms. Maybe it’s the Winston Churchill quote painted on the wall. Maybe it’s the cadence runs. Maybe it’s the organ in the lobby, and maybe it’s the Thursday night Feast. It was during my first week of school freshman year that I first began to experience the joys of Galloway and...

Last week, I tried to take the most bitter perspective on winter as the Underwarm Man while having a bit of fun with Dostoevsky at the same time. This week, with an encomium to winter, I would like to offer my community a more positive perspective on these cold days. From somewhere in the early...