Picture yourself in a boat on a river — then scratch that image because the Beatles are lame. Instead, picture yourself lying face up in an open field, your body swathed in a warm blanket, staring out at the October midnight as it opens into the Milky Way’s deep field of stars. Now call your...
Students claim they don’t have enough time to keep up music in college. Music Department Chairman James Holleman said he would disagree. Twenty-one years ago when he was first hired, only five percent of Hillsdale students participated in the music program. Now, more than 30 percent of students are involved in the music department. “When...
“There is something in the very form of reading — the shape of the action itself — that tends toward virtue.” So writes Karen Swallow Prior in her newest book published last month, “On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life Through Great Books,” speaking of the forming influence of literature in her life. “My deep...
Mere hours before the activation of the Trump administration’s artificial deadline on trade negotiations, the U.S. and Canada were able to reach an agreement. Months of tense negotiations and warlike rhetoric resulted in a broad framework for a trade deal on Sunday, intended to replace the North American Free Trade Agreement, which the president has...
Hillsdale’s sociology program is partnering with the philosophy and religion departments to present a lecture by Kevin Aho, professor of philosophy from Florida Gulf Coast University, on how the negative treatment of shyness indirectly contributes to favoring the outgoing personality. The lecture will be held Monday, Oct. 8 at 4 p.m. in Lane 214. Aho,...