There is no better reminder that we’re seniors than receiving a barrage of emails about senior events from class officers or Braden Van Dyke reminding us that we are only six months from graduation and becoming a member of Hillsdale’s esteemed alumni network. And with everything going on, it’s really easy to get social burnout...
Year: 2024
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Try JOMO: The joy of missing out
Autumn should be the season of pumpkin spice lattes, football, and falling leaves. But this year, politics has replaced football as our primary November concern — but it shouldn’t. Election season gives us the opportunity to become better educated on our political processes, but obsessively following the news cycle can come at the expense of...
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Democrats lost trust, not just the election
The Democratic Party and left-wing media told Americans not to believe their lying eyes, but they didn’t listen. The 2024 election will be remembered as a rejection of Democratic campaign rhetoric that tried to mislead the American people. Two major events this election shone a glaring light on the hypocrisy and lies of the Democratic...
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Don’t trust the polls? They got the losers right
Statistics is simply applied math. Polling is simply applied statistics. Most of the time, political polls are pretty reliable, since it’s simply math. But there are always exceptions. President-elect Donald Trump has always been skeptical of polls, a symptom of his 2016 charge of “fake news” against American media — and rightfully so. This year,...
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Tower players bring sophocles’ tragedy ‘Ajax’ to life
Christian and Gainer as Ajax and Tecmessa. Courtesy | Kyle Johns As anguished cries resound off-set, a capsule turns around and reveals the bloody and despairing Ajax, sitting among dismembered bodies of animals: This scene sets the predicament of Sophocles’ “Ajax.” The Tower Players premiere 5th Century B.C. Greek tragedy “Ajax” by Sophocles this...