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Q&A with visiting poet Ryan Wilson
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Q&A with visiting poet Ryan Wilson

Ryan Wilson is a poet and the current editor of Literary Matters, an online literary journal. Wilson’s first book of poems, “The Stranger World,” won the 2017 Donald Justice Poetry Prize, and his poems, translations, and criticism appear widely in periodicals such as First Things, Five Points, The Hopkins Review, The New Criterion, The Sewanee...

New York’s abortion law dehumanizes and destroys
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New York’s abortion law dehumanizes and destroys

This past Tuesday, on the 46th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed into law what is arguably the least restrictive state legislation regarding abortion. The law removes the legal protection of babies born alive during a botched abortion and removes the threat of all legal prosecution for abortion providers, which...

#ExposeChristianSchools is a chance to teach — and listen
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#ExposeChristianSchools is a chance to teach — and listen

  The media flared up over reports last week that Karen Pence, wife of U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, is now teaching at a Christian school that upholds traditional biblical views of sexuality and marriage. Before long, #ExposeChristianSchools became a trending hashtag on Twitter. The Covington Catholic episode last weekend — in which the media...

Michigan House to consider legalizing ballot selfies
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Michigan House to consider legalizing ballot selfies

A bill legalizing the “ballot selfie” is set to be resubmitted to the Michigan House of Representatives after the bill died on the floor at the end of 2018. The change in law is due in part to a 2016 lawsuit filed by two Hillsdale alumni to protest election laws prohibiting taking pictures of marked...