I came to Hillsdale College because I wanted a normal college experience. Of course, I wanted Hillsdale’s liberal education, to read the canon of the western tradition — you’ve seen the brochures. I was skeptical, too, of the monastic environment of “great books” schools like the 100-student Thomas More College of Liberal Arts or 400-strong...
Project Veritas Founder James O’Keefe speaks to students in Mossey Library’s Heritage Room on guerrilla journalism upon invitation from Hillsdale College Republicans. Randy Keefe | Courtesy Hillsdale College Republicans brought James O’Keefe, the controversial political activist best known for his undercover videos of the community activist group ACORN’s workers, to campus to speak and sign...
The unannounced release of “untitled unmastered.” from hip-hop superstar Kendrick Lamar was a surprise gift to fans who’d assumed it would be years before Lamar followed his 2015’s Grammy-winning “To Pimp a Butterfly” with new music. “Untitled unmastered.” fills the void less than a year after the last release, but it also offers something new...
This semester, the Visiting Writers Program will bring poet and English professor Maurice Manning to campus March 14-15. Manning is the author of multiple collections of poetry, including “Lawrence Booth’s Book of Visions,” “Bucolics,” “The Common Man,” and “The Gone and the Going Away.” Manning has taught at DePauw University and Indiana University, and he...
Maurice Manning’s poetry in his 2010 collection “The Common Man” is an invitation to converse with the unique voices of his rustic Kentucky home. Manning uses each poem as an opportunity to narrate a single tale. But beyond merely relating events, his narrators sing of themselves, their concrete personalities and manners, and their relationships to...