Democrat Abdul El-Sayed defeated Republican and former U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers for the U.S. Senate, and Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson beat Republican U.S. Rep. John James for Michigan governor in Tuesday’s U.S. midterm elections. The decisive victories in the battleground state were a part of a nationwide blue wave that saw Democrats take...
Seniors Macartan Moore, Judah Newsom, and Hayden Hoffpauir at Marine Corp Base Quantico in June. Courtesy | Gabriel Beckwith Five Hillsdale seniors are on course to commission as Marine Corps officers upon their graduations, making them the second-largest cohort from Hillsdale College set to become officers in the past 20 years. The seniors planning to...
If you listen closely, you can hear it: that’s “The Social Reckoning” falling onto the mountain-like piles of movie sequels that couldn’t dream of living up to their originals. The film, released Oct. 9 by Sony Pictures, follows Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen (Mikey Madison) and Wall Street Journal investigative reporter Jeff Horwitz (Jeremy Allen White)....
Strasburg in Berlin in 2015. Courtesy | James Strasburg In this Quick Hits, Associate Professor of History James Strasburg discusses mountain biking, movies, and Germany. What’s your favorite thing about Hillsdale students? The desire to dig deep into the first things, the most essential questions. If you weren’t a history professor, what would you be...
Courtesy | Unsplash Broadcasting anyone’s execution to the world is abhorrent and grotesque, but make no mistake: An execution being approved at all is already a tragedy. The Department of War last week announced plans to livestream the Dec. 3 execution of Nidal Hasan, the ex-Army psychiatrist and Islamic extremist who in 2009 killed 14...