Thanksgiving Day is over, and the Christmas season has begun — right out of the gate Friday morning (no, Thursday afternoon!) with Black Friday shopping sprees, Cyber Monday sales, and our token #GivingTuesday. The National Retail Federation estimates record spending over the weekend amounted to as much as $720 billion. For college students, the temptation...
In the movie titled after his own despicable actions, the dark wizard Grindelwald commits no truly evil action. In the franchise that’s supposed to deal with fantastic beasts, the beasts hardly see any screen time in the newest film of the Harry Potter universe, “The Crimes of Grindelwald.” The film starts in 1927 with the...
With two minutes and 15 seconds remaining in the fourth quarter on Saturday, the Hillsdale College Chargers trailed 19-14 in round two of the NCAA Division II playoffs against the Notre Dame College Falcons. Senior quarterback Chance Stewart took the field at the Chargers’ 25 yard line, hoping to guide the team on a game-winning...
Expendability is the byword for most of the Gilded Age’s newspaper verse, and the work of Rose Hartwick Thorpe is no exception. Although her 1867 poem “Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight” was of the most popular ballads of the 19th century, by the late 20th, it faded into obscurity. Thorpe began publishing as a 16-year-old...
After spending Thanksgiving break seeing friends, eating obscene amounts of food, and catching up on sleep, it’s hard to imagine that someone might spend it writing over 6,000 words a day. That’s just what Freshman Sydney Crawford did during Thanksgiving break of her senior year in high school. Crawford is a published author of a...