Last week, a student argued in the Collegian that Americans need to reject the two-party system in favor of a “marketplace of parties” where Americans vote third-party. He claimed that the former forces voters to choose between the “lesser of two evils,” while the latter creates a net benefit for all Americans, forcing parties to...
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Hillsdale, let’s return to normal life on campus
We cannot have the community necessary for liberal education when we treat our fellow citizens like biohazards. Therefore, Hillsdale College ought to remove all coronavirus restrictions on campus. Healthy students should not have to go into quasi-solitary confinement because they side-hugged someone who had mild flu-like symptoms. As of this writing, 43 students are in...
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Michigan heads toward a very blue November
2020: the year that perpetually seems to throw a wrench in voters’ plans. For a single year, we have seen a major foreign policy crisis in the middle east with Iran, an impeachment, a global pandemic, an economic slowdown, and a flare-up in racial tensions. Competitive Michigan elections — such as the race for the...
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Courses ought to put more emphasis on the entire Western tradition
When I tell outsiders that I go to Hillsdale, I’m convinced I will always get one of two responses: either an exclamation of joy because of youth involvement in movement conservatism or a blank stare. For the blank stares, I usually spit out a rendition of “small liberal arts college,” combined with “south central Michigan”...
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Liberal arts in action: Release the raids
It is my intention to prove once and for all that Hillsdale’s male dormitory raid culture is necessary for a liberal arts education. I would like to begin by saying (keep your shirts on Simpsonites), that inter-dormitory rivalries are at the heart of student culture and campus will be worse off if raids and the...