After decades of faithfully serving on the Hillsdale College Board of Trustees as both a member and its chairman, Bill Brodbeck ’66 is stepping down to retire. His wisdom and guidance led the college through tumultuous events and years of success, and his influential work will never be forgotten. Mr. Brodbeck has helped shape the...
Punk music and Bruno Mars were blaring in equal measures from Grange Hall at the Hillsdale County fairgrounds on Friday night. One student played guitar hard enough that her hand bled onto her instrument. “It’s the most punk rock thing I’ve ever done,” freshman Jane O’Connor said. At CHP showdown last weekend, eight student bands...
When Paris’s Notre Dame Cathedral caught fire on Monday, my life entered slow-motion. I sat in the television viewing room of Grewcock with a small group of students and professors watching CNN replay a clip of the cathedral’s spire falling. “Have you ever been there?,” said one of the professors. “Yeah, last spring break,” I...
From Abraham Lincoln to Elvis Presley, the “Battle Hymn of the Republic” has been championed by a vast array of Americans in the nearly 157 years since its composition. Featured prominently at America’s definitive battles, funerals, rallies, and consecrations, it has been used to prompt, justify, and glorify all manners of American thought and action....
Isabella stands before a tyrant dressed in blood-red clothes. Her feet are pressed into the ground as she looks him in the eye: An Antigone in modern dress. “Sir, believe this,” she says to him with her chin upraised, “I had rather give my body than my soul.” This is Isabella, the epic heroine of...