When Paris’s Notre Dame Cathedral caught fire on Monday, my life entered slow-motion. I sat in the television viewing room of Grewcock with a small group of students and professors watching CNN replay a clip of the cathedral’s spire falling. “Have you ever been there?,” said one of the professors. “Yeah, last spring break,” I...
Imagine if genuine and fulfilling love was only a matter of money. Something without the messiness and risk of rejection that comes from real-life relationships. Something that took only a few hundred dollars and a functioning internet connection to reach. Last month, experts in the field of artificial intelligence visited Hillsdale’s campus for the Center...
Some people take every opportunity they can to put others down, no matter the time and place. Schoolyard bullies, aggressive customers in restaurants, and rage-filled commuters all find time to let other people know how worthless they are. The strength of social convention makes sure that only the brash and socially deaf have an...
Postmodern thinker Hideo Kojima in 2001 predicted the future. In his classic work “Sons of Liberty,” Kojima depicts a world where media surrounds the individual with constantly changing and useless information, or “junk data.” This junk data drives the individual to build their own truth and abide by it with slavish devotion. Kojima writes: “Everyone...
It was a regular Thursday. Alarm Rings. Brush teeth. Comb beard. Get dressed. Head out. I needed to get to the Howard Music Building as soon as possible; My jazz combo was waiting. Earphones in. Isaac Hayes. I kept my head down and my hands in my pockets, trying to beat Michigan’s harsh and unyielding...