Have you ever painted with coffee? On Saturday, Oct. 19, several Hillsdale students gathered at Penny’s coffee shop in New Dorm to do just that. The event, called “Watercolor with Jo and Caro,” went on for at least an hour on Saturday, prepared and set up by junior Caroline Hennekes and senior Joanna Dell...
Hillsdale College students will be performing a staged reading of contemporary playwright Lauren Gunderson’s play “Silent Sky” on Oct. 17 and 18 in the Fine Arts Building – a historical piece about a young woman pursuing her interest in astronomy at the Harvard College Observatory. The play is based on the life of Henrietta...
Stories about the trickiest parts of the human experience — like drug and alcohol abuse — are the most compelling. The Lumineers are nothing shy of masters of this kind of musical storytelling. In their third album, “III,” released Sept. 13, the band takes their storytelling a step further. In addition to the album,...
While the media rushed to explain the economic causes when Forever 21 declared bankruptcy two weeks ago, there’s one issue they didn’t mention: fast fashion. The Wall Street Journal reported that until the late 1970s, the U.S. produced at least 70% of the apparel that Americans purchased, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics....
Americans are materially far better off than they were a century ago. A vast social safety net enables even those at the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder to have their basic needs met. And yet, despite ample government spending on various welfare programs—at taxpayer expense—many Americans fail to reach their full potential. In “Who Killed...