On Tuesday, the Catholic Society hosted the second in a series of three lectures on theology and literature. The talk, given by Jesuit priest Brian Van Hove, S.J., was titled “Flannery O’Connor and the Habit of Being” and focused on the mid-20th century southern Catholic author Mary Flannery O’Connor. Van Hove is currently the chaplain...
Author: Chris McCaffery (Chris McCaffery)
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The challenge of filling a healthy plate
The challenge facing Saga, Inc. and Hillsdale’s Health Services Department is a tough one: how to give busy college students access to healthy food that they actually want to eat. It’s much easier said than done. A recent survey conducted by Health Services showed that students are definitely concerned about their ability to eat healthy...
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Visiting Journalist Speaking on Young Adult Literature
Hillsdale College and the Dow Journalism Program will host visiting journalist Meghan Cox Gurdon next week. At 8 p.m on March 12 in Dow Center Rooms A and B, Gurdon will present a public lecture on her controversial 2011 column, “Darkness Too Visible,” published in the Wall Street Journal. She will be speaking on modern...
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CCA II: ‘Gen. William Slim and the Burma Campaign’
Historian and journalist Andrew Roberts spoke Monday for the World War II Films Center for Constructive Alternatives on the topic of “General William Slim and the Burma Campaign.” Connecting with the showing of the 1957 movie “The Bridge on the River Kwai” earlier in the day, Roberts spoke about the allied campaign in Burma during...
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Q & A: Andrew Roberts
Andrew Roberts is a British historian and political commentator and the author of 14 history books on such diverse topics as World War II, Napoleon Bonaparte, and the House of Windsor, as well as “The Aachen Memorandum,” a futuristic novel and political commentary, and edited “What Might Have Been,” a collection of 12 “what if?”...