The Hillsdale College women’s tennis team wrapped up their spring season after falling 5-4 to Davenport and 6-3 to Aquinas this past weekend. The two losses brought the Chargers’ spring record to 2-3. Friday brought stiff competition on the singles front. Junior Sydney Delp earned a 7-6, 6-1 win at No. 2 singles. At No....
Year: 2015
The closing of the conservative mind
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...
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...
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...
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...