Now that the library has been transformed into a construction zone, the amount of quiet space for students to work on campus has decreased substantially. There is a simple solution, however: Turn the Searle Center into a study hall. The conference room spends most of the year locked up and completely empty, but it doesn’t...
Slavery is not America’s original sin. Courtesy | Flickr In the Feb. 2 edition of the Collegian, “Hillsdale students should celebrate Black History Month”, Elizabeth Troutman claims that slavery constituted America’s “original sin.” But as every school child now knows, the first African slaves permanently arrived in America in 1619—well over 150 years before the...
Become ungovernable. Hillsdale College, just like the Founding Fathers she so rightly reveres, should fight back against tyranny. President Joe Biden’s unconstitutional vaccination mandate represents just the latest overreach by a government at war with its own people. The college should not comply with these mandates. It should loudly proclaim outright resistance to the “emergency”...
Three weeks ago, a two-star general tried to cancel me on Twitter. It went badly—for him. America’s military establishment has long enjoyed immunity from serious public criticism. Americans lost trillions of dollars and thousands of lives in the sinkholes of Afghanistan and Iraq while their generals made off like bandits securing book deals, fellowships, and...
We cannot have the community necessary for liberal education when we treat our fellow citizens like biohazards. Therefore, Hillsdale College ought to remove all coronavirus restrictions on campus. Healthy students should not have to go into quasi-solitary confinement because they side-hugged someone who had mild flu-like symptoms. As of this writing, 43 students are in...