In the summer months leading up to the 2024 presidential election, 35 Hillsdale College students interned in Washington, D.C. Their internships provided both professional and personal growth within the Hillsdale community. The 35 students, whose number has increased each year since COVID-19, showcased the appeal to working the summer leading up to the election, said...
Taylor Swift released her long-anticipated “The Tortured Poets Department” on April 19. The album has a lot of impressive songwriting and commentary but fell short in some significant areas. The album featured a number of songs that were lyrically and musically complex, but also a number of filler songs. With 31 tracks on the full...
Song: “Wayfaring Stranger” (1858) It’s a song I play on guitar and sing. It’s very beautiful, and it is one of the most highly recorded old Appalachian folk songs. Book: “Rats, Lice and History: A Chronicle of Disease, Plagues and Pestilence” (1935) by Hans Zinsser It’s a picaresque account of how epidemics have shaped...
Author Chigozie Obioma visited campus last week to teach students enrolled in his creative writing class and give a lecture on relationships in fiction. The Nigerian novelist and professor whose debut novel, “The Fisherman,” and his second novel, “An Orchestra of Minorities,” were both finalists for the prestigious Man Booker Prize, an international award given...
“Masters of the Air” has attracted the die-hard fans of HBO miniseries “Band of Brothers” and “The Pacific” after 10 years of anticipation. The show comes as the third World War II miniseries produced by Tom Hanks and Stephen Spielberg. It didn’t disappoint. The long-awaited Apple TV+ series portrays the missions and struggles of the...