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U.S. Rep. Greg Gianforte names Hillsdale alumnus as chief of staff
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U.S. Rep. Greg Gianforte names Hillsdale alumnus as chief of staff

Formerly a member of the campus bagpipe band, Hillsdale alumnus Charles Robison ’00 now leads a congressman’s staff. Robison was named chief of staff to Rep. Greg Gianforte, R-Montana, in June. He previously served as state director for then-U.S. Sen. Steve Daines, R-Montana, and he said he considers it a privilege to help find common-sense...

A good movie is hard to find: ‘Flannery’ shows shocking grace
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A good movie is hard to find: ‘Flannery’ shows shocking grace

“Flannery: The Storied Life of the Writer from Georgia,” a new documentary by Elizabeth Coffman and Mark Bosco S.J. and funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, tells the story of one of the South’s most legendary and least understood authors and her most popular short stories.

Robert Elder’s ‘Calhoun: American Heretic
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Robert Elder’s ‘Calhoun: American Heretic

In “Calhoun: American Heretic,” Elder makes one of America’s strangest and most controversial figures familiar without understating any of his flaws. From Calhoun’s youthful presidential dreams to his acerbic middle-aged reactionism, Elder tracks his subject’s career from the South Carolina upcountry and Yale College to Washington, D.C., interspersing the stories of his political battles in...