I’m sure a familiar shudder ran through the bones of the student body upon receiving the most recent email from Hillsdale College President Larry Arnn: flashbacks to a panicked spring break, to choppy Zoom lectures from your bedroom at home, to isolation, over-snacking, and bad Wi-Fi. These are not the worst of evils, we are...
Author: Aaron Andrews (Aaron Andrews)
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Scientists provide hope in midst of COVID-19 outbreak
On Sunday, President Donald Trump announced that he would extend social distancing recommendations through April 30 to mitigate the spread of COVID-19, the disease caused by coronavirus. It’s the right call. The administration’s move to extend the recommendations appears to be driven by alarming mathematical models. In a Sunday morning interview on CNN’s “State of...
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Bring back the original Oath of Hippocrates
A few weeks ago, a pre-med student and friend of mine mentioned her discovery that medical students today rarely take an oath of doing no harm. Intrigued, it only took a few minutes of Googling to come across the evolutionary history of the medical oath. Sifting through the many versions of the Hippocratic Oath, I...
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The Washington Nationals’ lesson for Hillsdale
Last week, Matthew Spalding, professor of Statesmanship and Public Policy, began class at the Kirby Center as he usually did by asking the students if anything important had happened that day. One student mentioned an incident with former Vice President Joe Biden. Another brought up some recent Capitol Hill drama. Spalding, who also serves as...
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Government intervention to blame for inefficient healthcare system
For more than a decade now, the American political system has focused incessantly on healthcare and health insurance. High-profile tragedies have directed public ire towards American healthcare and insurance companies and now foster support for a central plank in the Democratic Party’s implicit platform — Medicare for All. Critics of America’s free market healthcare and...