What’s your least favorite sport to watch? Soccer. Do you have a bucket list? I don’t. But I have made a New Year’s resolution every year for 20 years now, which is to learn how to play an instrument. I’m one of the biggest music fans that you’ll meet… but I could not get on...
Retirement is not the end of the road, it is the beginning of the open highway—a popular, unattributed quote reads. For Tom Conner, recently retired professor of history, this open highway turned out to be a quite familiar, well-traversed one. After officially retiring in August from 37 years as chair of military history at Hillsdale...
It was 1:22 a.m. The stairs rattled, and someone slowly tip-toed down the steps: my housemate’s boyfriend. Ah, of course. “Sofia, what the heck are you doing up right now?” He peered into my room, where an overpriced hipster lantern lit up my once-tired, now-perked-up eyes. “Come here. I’ll show you.” The wide-eyed and very...
Freshman Carter McNish walked along the same trenches where Hillsdale students won medals of honor for fighting in the Civil War. Looking at Hillsdale College’s Civil War Monument, McNish read the names of those Hillsdale students who lost their lives serving as soldiers in the Civil War and decided that he ought to tell their...
Congrats gang! Hillsdale College has reported zero cases of COVID-19 for the past three weeks — no doubt thanks to our rigid enforcement of lockdowns, masks, and social distancing. Even though we’re currently COVID-19 free, here are a few reasons why we should all still wear masks until the heat death of the universe. Reason...