When floating in a raft on the sea, half-dead, and hallucinating, Louis Zamperini gazed up at the stars and whispered to God: “If you save me, I will serve you forever.” As told by Laura Hillenbrand in Zamperini’s biography and in Angelina Jolie’s feature-film adaptation, “Unbroken,” Zamperini, an olympic athlete and American soldier during WWII...
Classical liberal arts training will be valuable in the digital future, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai said. On Sept. 20, the Hillsdale College Federalist Society hosted Pai, who spoke on the future of digital opportunity. “Your school’s unique commitment to a classical liberal arts education — to ‘understanding the good, the true, and the...
In the office of Hillsdale College library director Dan Knoch hangs a portrait of Russell Kirk. Painted shortly after Kirk’s death in 1994 by former art professor Sam Knecht, the portrait was meant to hang amidst Kirk’s archives and private library. Today, however, Kirk’s books sit in an off campus storage facility accumulating dust instead...
Equip Ministries has started a new Bible study featuring local pastors discussing various core principles of Christian belief. The program, held in Kendall 236A at 8 pm, meets on various Thursdays throughout the semester. Equip currently has several other programs already, and this new study was created to meet a different need the leaders perceived...
History unites every academic subject. “It helps to break down the dividers between the disciplines of science, medicine, philosophy, art, music,” says David McCullough, one of America’s greatest historians. “It’s all part of the human story and ought to be seen as such.” In this way, history does not merely unite academia, it offers substantive...