If I had a penny for every time I heard Hillsdale referred to as “the conservative Harvard,” I could build another Chapel. As senior year comes to a close, it is impossible to challenge the incredible education that Hillsdale gave me and my peers. Even as I grumbled through baby chemistry as a Bachelor of...
The first book I read in my middle school English class was “The Giver” by Lois Lowry. I can still picture my 6th grade classroom and my teacher, sitting on her desk, patiently answering our disbelieving questions. We found “The Giver” disturbing and a little creepy. Our teacher wrote the definition for “euphemism” on the...
This past Tuesday, on the 46th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed into law what is arguably the least restrictive state legislation regarding abortion. The law removes the legal protection of babies born alive during a botched abortion and removes the threat of all legal prosecution for abortion providers, which...
I was glued to CSPAN all afternoon. The Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act has passed the House twice — in 2013 and 2015. But I was still on the edge of my seat, yelling at my laptop in the Grewcock Student Union. U.S. Rep. Trent Franks, R-Arizona, introduced the bill, which passed the House on...
The National Portrait Gallery has an exhibit entitled ‘Struggle for Justice’, stands a bust honoring Sanger for her work in sex education and for the establishment of the American Birth Control League. A surface look at her history shows Sanger worked to advance both racist and eugenic beliefs, and was deeply involved with both the...