When 6 a.m. cycles around every work day, teaching apprentice and junior Lauren McDonald is the first student bustling around the Hillsdale house in Washington D.C. Built in 1900 and recently acquired by the college, it houses 11 other students: all participants of the Washington Hillsdale Internship Program. As McDonald departs for her hour-long commute...
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February 14, 2013July 12, 2022Culture
A handbook to the American way
Scrolled across the wallpaper in Hillsdale’s library are the words: “Because ideas have consequences.” The definition of these ideas is paramount to the conservative mind. Just as Lincoln sought to define the essence of the Union, so the conservative argues from definition. In a Civil War fought over the meaning of American freedom, Lincoln believed...
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January 25, 2013July 12, 2022Opinions
Four more years: Obama’s second inauguration
The inauguration was not Obama’s party. I didn’t go to celebrate his policies of change and I didn’t go to affirm his “visions of hope.” I went because it was only the 57th time in world history that power of such magnitude was transferred or reaffirmed peaceably between opposing parties. Men and women who clash...