Gubernatorial candidate Gretchen Whitmer vowed to “fix the damn roads” during her 2018 campaign, and she promised to do so without raising taxes, calling a 20 cent gas tax increase “ridiculous” and “nonsense.” Five months later, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer proposed a 45 cents-per-gallon increase to the Michigan gas tax in the latest attempt to repair...
As the number of Democrats running in the presidential primary approaches the size of a small football team, their specific policy proposals on every issue become even more critical in determining who gets the Democratic nomination. One such proposal that has gained attention, particularly in the college-aged progressive base, is the idea of tuition-free college...
One of the most memorable classrooms experiences of my life was during my sophomore year in History of Economic Thought, when Associate Professor of Economics Charles Steele — no enemy of the free market, mind you — marched to the front of the class, dropped a copy of Karl Marx’s “Das Kapital” on the table,...
As February draws to a close, Hillsdale is still adjusting to the multitude of changes brought to campus last year. If one were to describe life in the Dale in 2018 with one word, that word would most likely be: “construction.” The past twelve months saw the erection of Christ Chapel, the completion of the...
“Was he the one in the blackface or the Klan outfit?” Incredibly, that was a serious question discussed on major news outlets just last week. An old yearbook picture of Virginia’s Democratic governor Ralph Northam dressed in blackface, standing next to another man in Ku Klux Klan garb, surfaced last week, resulting in condemnations and...