This summer, I stayed in Hillsdale and worked at the college. One morning, when my uncle offered to drop me off at work, the construction around campus quickly sparked a heated conversation. “So tell me, Reagan, what does a chapel mean to a liberal-arts education?” he asked. My uncle didn’t give me a chance to...
The rhetoric department brought history to life on Wednesday morning with reenactments of famous speeches from the individuals commorated by campus statues. The speaking tour, entitled “Historical Figures of the Liberty Walk: Speeches of Statesmen,” was part of the chapel dedication festivities. Nearly 200 attendees listened to students of Hillsdale College and Hillsdale Academy recite...
A traffic circle in Maryland isn’t the typical focal point of a religious liberty legal battle—unless it’s home to a 40-foot-tall Peace Cross. That was the topic of the Federalist Society’s first event of the semester, which featured Andrew Graham, deputy general counsel for the First Liberty Institute, a nonprofit legal organization dedicated to defending...
For years, Hillsdale College has held Winston Churchill as an embodiment of liberty and justice, and now it honors him with a series of photographs and drawings, located in Mossey Library, the Dow Hotel, and the Searle Center. “We wanted it to be some place on campus for permanent display, and since we have been...
When I was about 13, my dad went through a phase of playing Tom Petty in the car on Sunday mornings. As we drove down the highway to our Presbyterian church in Middle Tennessee, I would whine in the back seat about how annoying Petty’s voice was. The rest of my siblings enjoyed Petty; I...