A lack of compassion and a fundamental misunderstanding of human nature underlie American bioethics, according to Professor O. Carter Snead, who presented “What it Means to be Human: The Case for the Body in Public Bioethics” on April 14 in Plaster Auditorium. Snead, who is the director of the de Nicola Center of Ethics and...
Month: April 2021
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‘Taylor’s Version’ takes us back to the beginning
Taylor Swift’s name invokes strong reactions. Some say she’s too liberal for their taste. Others say she’s a floozy and a bad influence. Still others say she doesn’t make real music. But, for a generation of young women, Taylor Swift is our voice. Swift has grown up with us. From junior high to college, Swift...
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Not so wild west: Praxis guest talks property rights on the prairie
The absence of formal government institutions in much of the American West during the frontier era did not lead to violent chaos, but rather an effective laissez-faire approach to protecting property rights, according to P.J. Hill, a senior fellow at the Property and Environment Research Center, who spoke at Praxis’s “Not so Wild, Wild West”...
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Library reboots computers
Mossey Library is temporarily suspending the MeLCat interlibrary sharing service as it updates the library catalog to a new software for the fall semester. These research services and sharing requests, previously available through https://lib.hillsdale.edu/search and https://encore.hillsdale.edu, allow students, staff, and faculty to access material from libraries across Michigan. The classic online catalog and the new...
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The president, the ambassador, and the Ethiopian refugees
On Nov. 2, 1930, a young man snapped the last color photo of an Ethiopian prince being crowned emperor. Excitement rushed up his spine as he watched the ceremonies, he described in his memoir. He didn’t know Emperor Haile Selassie I would be killed years later by a communist coup, ending the 3,000-year monarchy. The...