“I want to feel free again.” This seemingly innocuous statement in a recent commercial from Michigan’s Department of Health and Human Services represents the most significant casualty of the COVID-19 era: Reality. In the commercial, Michigan HHS asked a series of people why they chose to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. While most of the interviewees...
A new full time professor of education will join the faculty as the college inaugurates its classical education masters program in the fall of 2022. David Diener will step down from his current position as the headmaster of Hillsdale Academy and become a full-time professor. Mike Roberts ’96, assistant headmaster of the Academy, will succeed...
After placing second in Mock Rock on Saturday, WhitWatWay won the 2021 homecoming competition for the second time in three years. Niedfeldt placed second overall, and Team Dob came in third. The alliance between Whitley, Waterman, and Galloway residences dominated the leaderboard throughout the week, placing in four out of five of the competitions. “The...
As Michigan’s redistricting commission promises to redraw the map of the state’s election districts by Nov. 1, a report from Hillsdale College urges its members to focus on traditional geographic boundaries rather than demographics. Stephen Markman, professor of constitutional law at Hillsdale and retired Michigan Supreme Court justice, wrote Hillsdale’s report at the request of...
The withdrawal of the U.S. military from Afghanistan was America’s “greatest self-inflicted wound,” said former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in a speech at Hillsdale College on Monday. He accused President Joe Biden of casting aside the Trump administration’s plans for an “orderly and structured withdrawal,” resulting in a humiliation for the United States and...