In the last days of his administration, former President Joe Biden unveiled a plan to reduce the amount of nicotine in cigarettes and urged President Donald Trump to take up the effort. This plan, while likely well-intended, misses the real tobacco problem in America. Occasionally smoking a cigarette with higher nicotine concentration is not bad...
“National Treasure” poster. COURTESY | Amazon “The Declaration of Independence is not a bargaining chip, not to me,” Nicholas Cage says in the movie “National Treasure.” When Ben Gates, Cage’s character, says this, he means the literal document. He holds the historical parchment so sacred that he claims he would never use it as...
Christian and Gainer as Ajax and Tecmessa. Courtesy | Kyle Johns As anguished cries resound off-set, a capsule turns around and reveals the bloody and despairing Ajax, sitting among dismembered bodies of animals: This scene sets the predicament of Sophocles’ “Ajax.” The Tower Players premiere 5th Century B.C. Greek tragedy “Ajax” by Sophocles this...
The campaign and election season has drawn to a close, and students from the Washington Hillsdale Internship Program are experiencing Washington, D.C., as it prepares for a new president. “We had a little Hillsdale election watch party in one of the class spaces that we have,” junior Adeline Kaufman said. “I would say everyone...
Song: “Paul Revere” by Noah Kahan and Gregory Alan Isakov (2022) “Paul Revere” by Noah Kahan with Gregory Alan Isakov. Don’t sleep on this collaboration between everybody’s favorite grumpy New England folk pop star and that lovely farmer singer Isakov. And if you haven’t listened to Isakov’s album with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra, do...