“You are just a puppet. You are not in control.” On Dec. 28, Netflix dropped a surprise episode in its ongoing series “Black Mirror.” Since its inception in 2011, the series has often been compared to the 1980s science fiction show “The Twilight Zone,” which is famous for traversing moral issues through suspense and psychological...
Our most profound learning experiences combine the thrill of novelty with the sense of familiarity, of going home. They bring us by a new path back to something we already knew at some level. They deepen and light up the mineshafts of the soul. Now, it is strange to speak of a book on Western...
Art Laffer is a prominent supply-side economist who served as a member of former President Ronald Reagan’s economic advisory board and as an adviser for President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign. He is well-known for developing a theory about the relationship between tax rates and tax revenues, now referred to as the “Laffer Curve.” Laffer is...
Hillsdale College theater majors and minors swept the American College Theater Festival in three categories Jan. 8-13. Seniors Emma Trist, Jessica McFarlane, Shiloh Carozza, and Judy Moreno, and junior Madeline Campbell traveled to Wisconsin for the regional ACTF competition. Trist competed and was selected as a finalist for her set design of “Harun and the...
For a limited time only, members of the Hillsdale College community have the opportunity to peer into the lives and minds of their professors and faculty from the comfort of Mossey Library. Librarian Brenna Wade spent part of her Christmas break investigating professor’s favorite books and arranging them in a display in the entrance to...