Professor of History David Raney was elected to a three-year term on the board of the National Rifle Association and will be sworn in on Saturday, April 15, with duties beginning the following Monday. Raney has taught at Hillsdale for almost thirty years and has written extensively about firearms and the Second Amendment. “I began...
Deposit insurance can be harmful. Courtesy | Bloomberg The Federal Reserve’s mixed messages following the recent failures of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank have left the United States financial sector on edge. After admitting that raising deposit insurance might be a good idea, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen quickly backtracked to assure Americans that the...
Clean energy is not the solution. Courtesy | Flickr Over 700,000 Michigan residents lost power during the recent ice storm. As power companies scrambled to restore energy, Hillsdale College hurried to install backup generators across campus to ensure dorm residents had power. Weather-related blackouts illustrate the weakness of the energy grid and fuel cries for...
A.M. Juster served as Commissioner of the Social Security Administration before focusing on poetry. Courtesy | Wikimedia Commons A.M. Juster was a visiting fellow with the English department. He is a poet, a critic, a retired government official, and a lawyer. Looking at your job history, you seem to be quite the Renaissance man....
Pistols made for the Royal Mail coach are now on display in the heritage room. Courtesy | Catherine Maxwell The beauty of the Heritage Room will now be matched by its brawn: a set of flintlock pistols and muskets dating back to the Revolutionary War. Clinton Miller donated the weapons in the summer of 2020,...