The first person in Michigan history to serve in the executive, legislative, and judicial branches spoke about two heroines at Hillsdale College on Wednesday afternoon. Attorney General Bill Schuette, who is in the running to become the 49th governor of Michigan, told the story of two women whose courage and talent brought to justice convicted...
When Devaun Chandler was sold into human trafficking by her own mother to her brother-in-law, at the age of 13, she did not realize she was a slave. She had already been sexually violated prior to this point. On Thursday evening, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship brought Chandler, a survivor of human trafficking and vice president of...
In this year’s commencement academic procession, you might catch a doppelgänger of Hillsdale College President Larry P. Arnn — but, it’ll be the two postdoctoral graduates of the Van Andel Graduate School of Statesmanship, wearing their new academic regalia styled after Arnn’s royal blue and black-velvet gown. “There had been favorable remarks of Dr. Arnn’s...
At a place like Hillsdale, there is a wealth of things to be learned. This prosperity, however, lends itself to the objectification of knowledge, which results in two dangers: an exclusionary possession of the knowledge that one has acquired and, in turn, an intellectual envy that leads to despair concerning that which one does not...
Scrolling through Twitter in the middle of January, Joseph Garnjobst, professor of classics, encountered blackout poetry — a form of poetry composed by selecting words on a page from a book or printed article and blacking out all the extra words, creating a poem. The next day, he picked up an old newspaper sitting...