“Each sharing the earth with all,” ends the first verse of Walt Whitman’s “Salut au Monde,” a poem that celebrates global equality. Virtues such as this brought Whitman beyond the U.S. border to share his ideas with the earth even during his lifetime. Assistant Professor of English Kelly Scott Franklin contributed a piece to the...
The lights dimmed, and the rustling theater-goers quieted in anticipation. That moment — between reality and the story — prepared the audience for a journey, either of laughter or tears, of entertainment or catharsis. Fourteen Hillsdale students had the opportunity to witness the lights rising on six professionally produced plays this past week at the...
When senior Chandler Ryd chose to attend Hillsdale, his passion for filmmaking heightened. Despite the few opportunities to practice film on campus, he said he has learned something even more valuable to film than the technical craft. “I’ve found that studying the seven classical liberal arts has made me a much better filmmaker because they’re...
This fall marks the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation, and an interdenominational group of faculty is providing a lecture series to commemorate the event and to educate students on the key ideas and events that changed Europe forever. “Regardless of whether you are Protestant, Catholic, or even a non-Christian, I think everyone on campus...
You may be through with Taylor Swift, but she isn’t through with you. Or so say the charts. When Swift dropped “Look What You Made Me Do” on Aug. 24, fans played the aggressive new single over eight million times on Spotify, a streaming splurge surpassing any other song’s success on the day of its...