“WAVES,” Kanye West’s upcoming album, set for a Feb. 11 release, should worry you more than the Presidential election does about the future of America. More than any politician, Kanye understands the spirit of the American everyman. Kanye has done a lot of obnoxious things recently — marrying Kim Kardashian, declaring he will run for...
Year: 2016
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Debate team places third in St. Louis tourney
Wikimedia Commons | Courtesy Ten members of Hillsdale College’s debate team drove to St. Louis, Missouri, Jan. 30-31 to compete at Webster University in the Gorlok Gala, one of the largest non-national tournaments in the country. Facing 41 other schools, Hillsdale took third place in the overall debate sweepstakes, a feat achieved by the success...
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What is charity?
Christ claimed that the poor will always be with us, an uncontroversial prediction in the Roman world. As Jeremy Beer details in “The Philanthropic Revolution: An Alternative History of American Charity,” for the ancient world poverty was a simple fact of life. Philanthropy was performed by the rich as part of public ceremony, in order...
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Carolina will win the Super Bowl
For a good chunk of the 2015 football season, the Carolina Panthers were the dark horses of the NFL. At first, they were overshadowed by the other undefeated teams. They were good, sure, but were they Green Bay good? Were they New England good? Not likely. Even after those other teams sputtered and cooled off...
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Will Dunham ’07 joins House majority leader’s staff
External Affairs | Courtesy Will Dunham ’07 is the news policy director in Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s, R-California, office in Washington, D.C. Will Dunham ’07 started his new position as policy director for Majority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-California, Jan. 21 after serving as the Republican Study Committee’s executive director. “What happened to him? How...