When Hillsdale students crank up the radio and hit “cruise” to return to school, they benefit from the work of Daniel Wisner, a Hillsdale College alumnus whose invention of automatic cruise control smoothes the ride for road trippers and continues to pave the way for future research in automated driving technology. Daniel Wisner ’55 holds...
The Republican presidential candidates commemorated the anniversary of Ronald Reagan’s birth on Saturday. But, far from honoring his legacy, the candidates utterly failed to exhibit his virtues of statesmanship. The average Republican voter frequently says that he wants to vote for the next Reagan. But, in this hunt for a Reagan clone, we have lost...
After failing to appear at pre-trial hearings in both district and circuit courts this week, police consider Jason Hawkins of Litchfield a fugitive. Warrants from both district and circuit courts have been issued for his arrest. Hawkins faces several charges: assault with intent to do great bodily harm, assault with a dangerous weapon, and domestic...
Ivan Pongracic, professor of economics at Hillsdale College, is set to appear Friday, Feb. 12 at 8 p.m. EST on Fox Business Network’s “Stossel With John Stossel” program, where he will discuss Sen. Bernie Sanders’, I-Vt., democratic socialism from his perspective of growing up under a communist government. “He was recommended to us by a...
To practice his penmanship, a 16-year-old George Washington transcribed “110 Rules of Civility” in the last 10 pages of his journal. Three decades later, General Washington quoted the old homework verbatim to his soldiers at Valley Forge, reminding them to be mindful of their personal appearance and words around women. These rules of civility, once...