President-elect Donald Trump’s foreign policy views break from Republican orthodoxy, so his Secretary of State appointment should too. Trump has criticized the war in Iraq, opposed the war in Syria, and favored friendly relations with Russia. Trump needs to search beyond neoconservative Republicans to find candidates more in line with his policies. On Nov. 21,...
Writing is, as Joan Didion states in her essay “Why I Write,” “an aggressive, even a hostile act.” In forming words into sentences, stringing them into paragraphs, and lacing those into chapters of books, a writer participates in a sort of coercion. The writer’s goal is to show something to the reader through force...
Hillsdale United Brethren Church (HUB) is hosting its annual Christmas bazaar Sat. Dec. 3. The traditional holiday event will host roughly 20 vendor tables, which will feature everything from wreaths to strawberry popcorn, and tupperware to stocking-stuffers. Organized by HUB’s women’s ministry, the bazaar does not have an entrance fee for customers. The $25...
The National Book Award selection panel pulled no punches with their poetry winner this year. But Daniel Borzutzky’s achievement was a political victory, not a poetic one. In “The Performance of Becoming Human,” Daniel Borzutzky’s National Book Award-winning collection, poetry is a political weapon, a bombshell meant to explode Americans’ delusions about their privileged position...
In just a couple weeks students will be flocking to the bookstore to sell back their books, hoping to get, at most, half their money back on the fortune spent on textbooks in August. Some will be lucky to get one dollar back on that $15-novel for an English class. But there is a better...