Year: 2015

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Let’s praise art for its merits, not its politics

When the Oscar nominations were released on Jan. 15, Vox.com, the site that aims to “Explain the news,” protested that a film had been “snubbed” in the drawing, appearing with only two nominations, one for Best Picture. “Selma,” the story of Martin Luther King Junior and the civil rights march he led from Selma to...

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American retreat

On Jan. 16, Secretary of State John Kerry delivered a present to a France still reeling from the Charlie Hebdo attacks: Musical guest James Taylor. In what some considered attempted compensation for the conspicuous absence of any US official from the post-attack “Unity March,” Taylor serenaded French delegates with “You’ve Got A Friend,” his 1971...

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I am Jewish and proud

Every morning for the past decade, I have put on the same earrings and necklace. They’re nothing flashy or overly eye-catching, but they do have one important feature: The Star of David. For all the years I have followed this routine, it was only recently that I began to think about it. It was only...

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Horsin’ around in Florida

The chances of her interning in Wellington, Florida for the Phelps Media Group internship were slim. After all, the internship program invited every college equestrian in the country to apply. As senior Glynis Williams approached the final week of her fall semester at Hillsdale College, she never thought that, in a matter of days, she...

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Slow and steady gets the grades

Remember the final week of the fall semester, when you stayed up all night writing your last paper, stumbled out of Delp Hall after turning it in the following day, and nearly collapsed into your car to return home in a post-finals daze? Remember thinking, “I will never let things get that bad ever again”?...