Hillsdale should offer sex-segregated physical wellness classes. Courtesy | Hillsdale athletics “I had a gym date today,” sophomore Natalie Parker said. As part of her physical wellness class, Parker’s professor asked the men and women in the class to raise their hands if they were familiar with the equipment in the gym. The men in the class...
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New Yorker misquote shows how media distorts Hillsdale
New Yorker article did not represent Hillsdale. Courtesy | Flickr. Journalist Emma Green’s article on Hillsdale College in last week’s New Yorker placed our school “at the center of the culture war.” Save one line about the “relatively little appetite for partisanship” on campus, she failed to pin down Hillsdale’s political philosophy. And she failed to...
The New Yorker reporter did not come to flatter us
The New Yorker article served its purpose. Courtesy | Flickr. When Hillsdale students were bickering with New Yorker readers in the comments section on Instagram last week, one thing was clear: only a small percentage of people had read Emma Green’s article in its entirety. From the April 10 issue of the New Yorker, Green’s...
Trump’s indictment was good for American democracy
Trump’s indictment was good. Courtesy | Wikimedia Commons. When a Manhattan grand jury indicted former President Donald Trump, many right-wing news outlets argued the indictment was a purely political attempt to harm his chances in the 2024 presidential race and not based in fact or law. Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene compared the indictment to...
Israeli factions should come together and compromise for judicial reform
Israel needs judicial reform. Courtesy | Wikimedia Commons Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pulled the plug on his judicial reform after months of rampant protests and union strikes, as well as rebellion from within his coalition government. Netanyahu will need to negotiate and compromise with opposition parties if he wants to keep the country’s unelected...




