A Lynyrd Skynyrd concert at a Michigan casino in August 2024 is precisely what you’d expect a Lynyrd Skynyrd concert at a Michigan casino in August 2024 would be: a slew of muscle tees, melted makeup, bad facial hair, “wife beater” tank tops, and Miss Me bedazzled jeans. It could have been the crowd at...
“Where were you when you first heard that planes hit the World Trade Center?” Other Americans can answer that question. They remember what happens when the forces that seek our destruction reach our shores. But almost every undergraduate student at Hillsdale is part of a new generation of Americans who cannot remember. We should still...
The only thing more haunting than my masked 2020 high school graduation was the number of kids whose folding chairs were empty that May afternoon, lost to freak accidents and suicide. My graduation was more a celebration of survival than a rite of passage. “Sometimes in life, only poetry will do,” my English teacher used...
The first time I read Hanya Yanagihara’s “A Little Life,” I ended up on the bathroom floor crying so hard I needed to use my childhood inhaler. Some call it empathy. Some call it effective writing. Some call it the consequences of BookTok, a subgenre of content on TikTok about books and reading. BookTok made...
The entertainment industry has a reliable recipe with a few key ingredients: money, insider relationships, and abuse. The new five-part docuseries “Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV” adds a haunting and eerily unsurprising element to this recipe — Nickelodeon’s abuse of children. Aired by Investigation Discovery in early March, “Quiet on Set”...