I come from the land of avocados, gluten-free religiosity, and juice cleanses: the state of California. During my first year at Hillsdale, I became accustomed to the options offered in the Knorr Family Dining Hall. When I returned to the land flowing with pH water and coconut oil the following summer, my body and mind...
There is a shortage of perfect writers in this world; it is a pity to lose one more. Brides still recite his lines at the altar; journalists take his advice to “follow the money”; Hollywood wannabes console themselves with his confession that “nobody knows anything.” William Goldman, the beloved writer behind the “The Princess Bride”...
This fall, Senior Gill West became the first Hillsdale student to qualify as a finalist for the British Marshall Scholarship, which CBS News calls the most prestigious graduate scholarship in America. The Marshall Scholarships help students from the United States attend any university in the U.K. in memory of the Marshall Plan’s assistance in rebuilding...
This year marks a full century since the 1918 worldwide influenza pandemic, during which four World War I Hillsdale student draftees came down with the flu. That epidemic was not the worst Hillsdale has seen, however. While the college was not widely harmed by this outbreak of the H1N1 influenza virus, it was severely affected...
After decades of service at Hillsdale College, Professor of Law Robert Blackstock and Lecturer in Economics Jacquelyn Blackstock will be retiring from Hillsdale College at the end of 2018. The Blackstocks said they are retiring largely because they want to maintain good health for the activities they plan on pursuing during retirement. These activities will...