They have kept his room the same. His clothes are still folded in his drawers and his bed is made, but they keep his door closed now. Inside his room, cards and letters line his bookshelves, and two candles glow in his windows. Those candles never go out, and they greet his parents, winking out...
I didn’t understand Hillsdale College when I was a freshman. Then I discovered a book that changed everything. I came here because I thought it would help me advance in Republican Party politics, but everyone at freshman convocation and other orientation events spoke about liberal education and the Honor Code. Aside from the statues of...
The U.S. dollar has dominated the international economic system for almost a century, but that may be coming to an end. Through the third year of World War I, the British pound remained on the gold standard and as the world reserve currency, but Britain’s war deficit accumulated. Britain had to take out loans, and...
Students at Hillsdale College no longer have access to using the telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory, after the National Science Foundation’s astronomy division divested from the project this year. The physics department has taken two trips to the Tucson, Arizona, observatory this year, after the foundation approved proposals that Assistant Professor of Physics Tim...
No young conservative would be surprised to hear that their opinions are countercultural or fringe, even unpopular. Nevertheless, many may not have considered that rhetoric — not just the ideas themselves, but the way they are expressed — preclude debate and sincere consideration. Rare is the man whose mind is changed by another’s pessimism, contrarianism,...