Big candy is the best candy Catherine Maxwell | Senior Editor Best Whatever candy you buy, buy it big: full-sized Twizlers, standard Reeses’s Cups, sharing-size Snickers. If you’re not experiencing a sugar rush (or a sugar crash) by the end of the night, you’re doing it wrong. Variety is also important. Packets of Sour Patch...
Charger Chatter: Jenna Southland
Courtesy: Hillsdale College Athletic Department If you had to be from a country other than the USA in the Olympics, which would you choose and why? Brazil – they have a great volleyball team, and it is warm there. What building should Hillsdale’s admin add next? Indoor pickleball courts first thing. What’s your favorite non-sport...
Three cheers for tariffs
Courtesy | Unsplash The cornerstone of President Donald Trump’s economic policy is something he called the “most beautiful word in the dictionary”: tariffs. Since January, Trump has tacked steep tariffs on a veritable smorgasbord of imports from international foes and allies alike. Tariffs are as American as apple pie, as a quick glance through our...
On Halloween, look away
Courtesy | Unsplash Baby dolls covered in red paint hung from the trees. I couldn’t look away, but I wish I had. Years after seeing this Halloween display in a neighborhood near my home, I can still feel that sickening twinge in my stomach. I never should’ve looked. Many Americans say Halloween is harmless, and...
On the merits, Trump deserved the Nobel Peace Prize
The will of Alfred Nobel specified the peace prize should go to those “who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses.” By that logic, this year’s Nobel Peace Prize prize should have...




