The best advice Hillsdale alumna Faith Liu ’16 shared with aspiring screenwriters and filmmakers was to learn to connect with a world that is “vastly different from your own.” “Most Hillsdale students I knew, and probably the ones you know, will go into conservative politics, teach at a classical school, get married to another Hillsdale...
The most meaningful message the new movie “Joker” offers is that Arthur Fleck, who ends up becoming the Joker, is a homogeneous conglomeration of everything that happened to him. It’s impossible, and I believe intentionally so, to attribute his mental state to just one or two life events. “Joker” was released on Oct. 4 as...
It’s difficult to imagine any gathering nowadays without some sort of arrangement of cheese, meats, crackers, fruit, or nuts — the charcuterie board. Most people use the word “charcuterie” interchangeably with cheese boards, yet the French word actually means “cold cuts,” or “delicatessen” in reference to meats. When creating a charcuterie board, both elements...
In the Daughtery Gallery in the Fine Arts Building, the Art Department is hosting the “Argentum: Contemporary Silverpoint Artshow.” The show opened on Oct. 18 and is open for public viewing until Nov. 20. The show includes a variety of pieces curated by Lauren Redding, whose own work is also included in the collection. ...
A poor, uneducated white boy from Missouri runs away from his drunken father and hops on a raft to head down the Mississippi River with a runaway slave. It is a story that most Americans know. It is Mark Twain’s classic American novel “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” and until recently, it was a...