To junior Michael Whitman and sophomore Hannah Hayes, Hillsdale isn’t that small. In the tiny towns of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, everyone knows everyone’s business. People don’t know it any other way. Whitman says he recalls visiting Milwaukee, his first time in a big city. “And it was just the wildest thing; It was the...
“Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth?” It’s a good question, and philosopher Eleonore Stump thinks we misread God’s answer to Job’s questioning of his goodness. We often say, with Job’s friends, that God tells him to sit down and stop asking questions: “Just,” stoic Christian soldiers say, “suffer. Faith is...
The Hillsdale College Shotgun Sports team earned its fifth consecutive Division III national title last week. The team sent nine people to compete in San Antonio, Texas, in the Association of College Unions International Collegiate Clay Target Championships March 26-31. “It’s incredibly stressful and a relief at the same time,” senior Emanuel Boyer said. “It’s...
There’s a whole world out there. In the heat of the semester at Hillsdale, it can be easy to forget that. But while we are lost in our study of the western tradition, a dedicated group of people from across the world look to Augusta, Georgia, and get lost in “a tradition unlike any other.”...
While I was helping my dad hang light fixtures in our new house years ago, he let me play music while we worked. When we had listened to about half of the Black Keys song I put on, he turned to me very solemnly and said, “Son, turn this off.” This is the most common...