Texas Democrat Beto O’Rourke joined the growing list of presidential hopefuls eager to abolish the Electoral College this week, calling it an outdated system comparable to “slavery.” “Yes, let’s abolish the Electoral College,” he said at the annual We The People Membership Summit in Washington, D.C. “This is one of those bad compromises we made...
During its meeting on April 1, Hillsdale City Council passed the Obsolete Property Rehabilitation Act for the Keefer House, LLC, which will provide property tax exemptions for for the next 12 years. Mayor Adam Stockford said the Keefer House, LLC submitted its application for the rehabilitation project to start July 2019, with a projected...
Hillsdale graduate Arielle Mueller ’15 has accepted a position as press secretary for recently-elected Utah senator Mitt Romney. After graduating from Hillsdale College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history, Arielle Mueller wasted no time beginning her professional career. Mueller spent a year in Madrid, Spain immediately after completing her undergraduate studies, where she...
A great revolution in human affairs is unfolding 200 miles above your head. Vice President Mike Pence announced last week at the Marshall Space Flight Center that it is a “stated policy” of the Trump administration “to return U.S. astronauts to the surface of the moon in the next five years.” July 20, 2019 will...
Most people don’t treat Sir Thomas More as a political thinker, but his political philosophy is worth studying as an insightful unification of the contemplative life and political action, according to Veronica Brooks, who recently completed the Ph.D. program at Hillsdale’s Van Andel School of Statesmanship. Delivering her dissertation on More’s political philosophy Monday afternoon...