Hillsdale students have access through the Mossey Library to a wide range of news publications, from the very conservative to the very liberal. All students receive a free online subscription to The Atlantic, Athletic, Economist, Epoch Times, New York Sun, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post.   

While too few students take advantage of these subscriptions, those who do, including much of The Collegian staff, find they play a vital role in their education. Being educated on current events, conversations, and culture allows us to apply the ideas and arguments formed in the classroom to the reality of the world we will enter once we leave. 

When the college considers adding new outlets to the list, The Free Press ought to be next. 

Started by Bari Weiss after she left the New York Times in 2021, the Free Press says it seeks to bring back the honesty, doggedness, and fierce independence that readers once expected from great journalism. In the words of Oliver Wiseman, who visited campus March 3, the outlet seeks to fall on the corporate side of rebel media and the rebel side of corporate media. It aims for high standards of fact-checking and professionalism without bowing to the establishment. 

The Free Press has made good on its promises, calling out the left for its breaches in rationality and the right for its moments of hypocrisy. It is the kind of publication people at Hillsdale say they wish existed. This is a publication that is challenging the narrative of what journalism should be, much like the work of a certain small liberal arts college with which we’re all familiar.