“Kind friends and companions, come join me in rhyme Come lift up your voices in chorus with mine Come lift up your voices, all grief to refrain For we may or might never all meet here again.” The opening verse of “Here’s a Health to the Company” began each folk song session ending Poetry Fridays...
Year: 2016
Bring Trump voters back into the GOP
What should conservatives do when we wrest our movement away from national populism and Donald Trump? Many conservatives have been arguing in outlets such as The Weekly Standard and National Review and The Resurgent that there must be consequences for Trump’s supporters. Often, the #NeverTrump crowd goes so far as to say that Trump supporters...
Edward Whelan on Justice Scalia and SCOTUS politics
Edward Whelan is the president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center. As a frequent contributor to National Review’s Bench Memos blog, one of the nation’s most popular legal blogs, he has been a leading commentator on nominations to the Supreme Court, lower courts, and on issues of constitutional law. Whelan clerked for the late...
Softball explodes for 10 runs to split with Ashland
Battling the bitter cold and a tough first-game loss on Tuesday, the Hillsdale College softball team rebounded to win its second game against the Ashland University Eagles 10-4, scoring in all seven innings. Eight of the nine starting players had hits, with junior Bekah Kastning going three-for-three with a single, a double, a home run,...
Mark Twain was greater than Shakespeare
He was so close. Mossey Madness was his stage, and all the other writers merely players. He strode confidently from round to round until, unjustly, he fell to Jane Austen. Looking back at the bracket — a campus-wide contest to pick the greatest writer, based loosely on NCAA basketball brackets — heads will shake. He...




