President Donald Trump has nominated constitutional lawyer and Hillsdale College alumnus Thomas Farr ‘76 for a position on the bench of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina. The U.S. Senate must approve Farr before he can take the bench. Nominations to the post have faced scrutiny in the past, leaving...
Anthony Slide spoke on “Billy Wilder and Hollywood’s Golden Age” at Hillsdale College for the fourth Center for Constructive Alternatives seminar of the academic year on Billy Wilder. Slide is the editor of “It’s the Pictures that Got Small: Charles Brackett on Billy Wilder and Hollywood’s Golden Age.” He is a former associate archivist of...
Daniel Kimmel spoke on the “Comedy of Billy Wilder” at Hillsdale College’s fourth Center for Constructive Alternatives of the academic year on Billy Wilder. Kimmel is the past president of the Boston Society of Film Critics and the founding co-chair of the Boston Online Film Critics Association. For many years his reviews appeared in...
In the early hours of the morning on Sunday, June 24, 1923, an attack was launched in an attempt to destroy the fruit shop of the Cascarelli family, a hardworking, Italian family living in Hillsdale, Michigan. And the perpetrator is still a mystery today. The Cascarellis found their home in the hushed, quaint town...
Hendrik Meijer hails from Grand Rapids, Mich. and graduated from the University of Michigan in 1973. Meijer’s grandfather founded the supermarket chain Meijer in 1934. Meijer is currently the executive chairman of the Meijer Corporation, which will open a store in the Hillsdale area soon. Meijer is also the author of a biography on...