If you’re going to publicly declare your affection for a food that has the odor and texture of a tacky Walmart candle, a decent respect of oneself requires a statement of the causes impelling one to that preference. Since I was old enough to scowl for family pictures, I fled with my family every few...
This week, two international incidents dragged Americans’ attention away from the midterm election cycle and Washington, D.C. politics: the death of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi Arabian consulate in Turkey, and a thousands-strong migrant caravan making its way up from Central America. Clearly intersecting with American politics, these issues remind us that...
I voted for the first time during a midterm election. We experienced it while living under two distinct shadows. It was the first federal election after 9/11. A world made new, in ways we then could hardly fathom, had changed our lives and our politics more than anything I had yet seen. It was also...
The Hillsdale College Chargers football team won its sixth consecutive game on Saturday, 28-9 against Walsh University. With the win, the team improved to 7-1 this season and 6-0 in the G-MAC. The win also propelled the team into the national NCAA Division II rankings for the first time, at No. 25. The national ranking...
Seated along a table in the back room of Rough Draft coffeehouse on Sunday, seven local students laughed and chatted as they signed the product of four months of their work: A color-illustrated, 36-page book about Winona, the daughter of Hillsdale’s Algonquin Chief Baw Beese. “It’s cool seeing now how it’s affecting a lot of...