“Gun to your head: what is the greatest great book?” “Too many good options…I’ll vote for ‘Anna Karenina.’ I take it as read, of course, that the unspoken stipulation is ‘except of course the Bible.’” — David Gaebler, Mathematics “Aside from the Bible, the ‘Summa Theologiae.’ Though if I were holding a cane, then ‘Cane...
“I believe in self-made men,” Joseph Pulitzer once said. The legacy he built to encourage American authors and journalists to seek excellence now threatens to destroy itself. The Pulitzer Prize Board will meet in October to discuss expanding eligibility for the prize to non-U.S. citizens. This change would disrespect Pulitzer’s legacy of American grit and...
One of the ugliest paintings on the art market sold for $179.4 million in 2015. The painting is “Girl Before a Mirror” and the painter is Pablo Picasso. He’s a household name, and many consider him one of the great painters of the 20th century. He helped invent cubism, a style of art characterized by...
Politics, religion, and money. These are the things my mother tells me not to talk about in polite company. I’d be shocked if any of us could get through a day at this school without talking about politics and religion, but there’s no reason to bring up money as much as some people do here....
Every Hillsdale student should take a classics course because the Greco-Roman world provides us with the guidelines for a life of nobility and glory. As Hillsdale students, however, we are constantly presented with patterns of examples from disciplines as diverse as chemistry, music, and English. Each of us must complete at least two English and...