Picture a gaggle of gangly elephants gyrating about on a desert landscape as a lone man, naked and unprotected, attempts to resist the gilded promises they offer him. This is not a metaphor for how the Republican Party’s 2016 presidential victory — which at first appeared to free the American people from their Bush and...
On the brink of a new political season in Washington D.C., Rep. Tim Walberg, R-Mich., was recently appointed chairman of the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions for the 115th Congress. According to Walberg’s Communications Director Dan Kotman, chairing this subcommittee provides Walberg a leadership role in shaping important policy decisions — from...
It wasn’t a perfect weekend, but it was certainly a positive one for the Hillsdale College men’s basketball team. On Jan. 19, the Chargers erased a 14-point deficit late in the second half before falling 79-77 to the Walsh Cavaliers on a last-second jumper. Hillsdale bounced back on Saturday with a comfortable 80-62 win over...
Sixteen players on the Hillsdale College women’s basketball team have never stepped onto the court for a single game. Despite their dedication in practice, their support from the sidelines, and their official status as NCAA athletes, these sixteen are always on the bench. This might be because their bench is in the middle of the...
Abigail Gilbert ’14, formerly Abigail Wood, didn’t expect to end up on camera when she interviewed for a job at Channel 8 News in Lincoln, Nebraska. She’d studied English, journalism and philosophy at Hillsdale, but she’d only done print journalism. So she was surprised when the editor at the station said he hoped she didn’t...