Courtesy | Unsplash Hillsdale prides itself on being different: No government funding, a small student body, and a mandatory logic class. We can add rejection of artificial intelligence as a replacement for human creativity to that list. Professors have different rules regarding the use of AI, but all of them rightly forbid students from using...
Courtesy | Unsplash Social media has its uses, but shaping our political and religious beliefs should not be one of them. We’re better off speaking face-to-face. The structure of social media guards us from uncomfortable ideas that challenge our assumptions and the people who hold them, but these discomforts are what we need to develop...
Courtesy | Unsplash Americans have been sold a cheap kind of patriotism. We celebrate American holidays and drape our flags, but true love of country is more rare than we think. Americans, especially young Americans, do not know our history enough to love it, and we don’t love it enough to preserve it. Our 250th...
Courtesy | Unsplash Assistant Professor of History Miles Smith’s recent Opinions article (“Reject brazen interventionism,” Jan. 22) helpfully warns against the perils of toppling foreign governments. However, the article fails to address the most important justification for the Venezuela operation: self-defense. President Donald Trump’s decision to remove Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro is entirely consistent with...
Courtesy | Unsplash Netflix may have just introduced a new genre, and I’m not a fan. Alex Honnold, the professional climber best known for the 2017 documentary “Free Solo,” climbed the tallest building in Taiwan, Taipei 101, without ropes Saturday. More than six million people tuned in to watch the climb live on Netflix. The...