When the film adaptation of a wildly popular erotic novel — “50 Shades of Grey” — comes out on our annual celebration of love, you know our culture has a disordered conception of the relationship between love and sexuality. We have a sex obsession. I am constantly reminded of it everywhere. From social media to...
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March 5, 2015July 12, 2022Interviews, News
Joe Rago Q&A: On Obamacare and winning the Pulitzer Prize
Joe Rago is a member of The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board. In college, he was editor-in-chief of the Dartmouth Review, and through his time there received an internship, and eventually a job, at WSJ in 2005. Rago won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in Editorial Writing for his work on the Affordable Care Act. Winning...
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March 5, 2015July 12, 2022Sports
Women’s basketball eliminated in the U.P.
The Hillsdale women’s basketball season ended last night in the same place that it began five months ago: the Upper Peninsula. The Chargers made their fifth trip to the U.P. where they lost to the ninth-ranked Michigan Tech Huskies 67-49 last night in Houghton, Michigan in the first round of the GLIAC conference tournament. The...
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March 5, 2015July 12, 2022News
Chargers sending 15 to nationals
After a third place finish from the women and fifth from the men at the GLIAC indoor championships last weekend, the Hillsdale College track and field team is sending 15 athletes to the NCAA Division II national championships in Birmingham, Alabama on March 13 and 14, co-hosted by the Birmingham CrossPlex and the University of...
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March 5, 2015July 12, 2022Opinions
Let’s celebrate Black History Month
What was February like at Hillsdale College? Like anywhere else, we recognized and talked about Valentine’s Day, midterms, and the frigid weather. However, unlike most colleges, there existed a notable absence of discussion concerning the celebration (or lack thereof) of Black History Month. The most celebratory items on campus were the posters of Frederick Douglass...