Dear Editor, Hillsdale’s Praxis hosted two phenomenal lectures last week. One was a speech arguing in favor of open borders from Shikha Dalmia, a brilliant young scholar in public policy for the Reason Foundation, and one was a lecture by Israel Kirzner, one of of Ludwig von Mises’ most brilliant students, who is also on...
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April 23, 2015July 12, 2022Opinions
The losing side of the lotto
What has six balls and screws the poor? The lottery. The crass joke suits the crassly unjust and embarrassingly ubiquitous aspect of public policy. A state-sponsored lottery is a tax—an insidious, regressive, inefficient, and disgraceful one. That these laws have lasted so long speaks to the hypocrisy of politicians, the apathy of citizens, and the...
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April 23, 2015July 12, 2022Opinions
Hillsdale police abuse
We — senior Dakota Michael and sophomore Kate Patrick — were almost arrested on March 31. Not for trespassing. Not for drug dealing. Not even for speeding. It was because our car broke down. The police who pulled us over represent a worrying trend. Cops may exhibit aggressive qualities and abuse citizens to protect themselves...
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April 23, 2015July 12, 2022Opinions
Our food has improved
On March 16, 2014, I wrote the second letter Bon Appétit would receive from a Hillsdale College student. “I am a Hillsdale College (Michigan) student trying to find a more nutritious/tasty food alternative to the ‘food’ they serve us now,” my letter read. “I am looking for an alternative to the current company that services...
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April 23, 2015July 12, 2022News
Justice-Templeton retires after 44 years
After almost 50 years spent at Hillsdale as both an undergraduate and a professor, Professor of French Ellen Justice-Templeton ’71 is retiring at the end of this year. Having graduated from Hillsdale in 1971 and completed graduate work at the University of Michigan before coming back to the college, Justice-Templeton said she has seen and...