If you were raised in a household like mine, your mom probably forced you to read a book during the summer at one point or another. Or maybe, you were super smart in high school, took Advanced Placement Language, and had hundreds of pages of mandatory summer reading. But, let’s be honest. Did you actually...
Category: Opinions
Tom Conner is the ideal 2020 commencement speaker
Many students compare his deep and booming baritone to the voice of God. And after nearly 37 years of teaching, Professor of History Tom Conner is one of the most beloved professors on campus. Generations of Hillsdale students have had the privilege of learning from “Doc” Conner, but the class of 2020 has the honor...
Politicians’ troubling COVID-19 restrictions threaten liberty
Since the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 — which infected nearly 500 million people worldwide and killed anywhere from 20 to 50 million victims — no one has experienced the national effects of a viral pandemic. From our couches and living rooms to our kitchen tables and recliners, we are now seeing the alarming political...
The Weekly: Lessons from this semester
We never dreamed the semester would turn out like this. We all expected to come back from spring break refreshed, ready for a beautiful Hillsdale springtime, for exams and good weather, for professors to conduct classes outside, for walks across campus and in the Arboretum. But the semester we expected is not what we received....
Cuomo’s fiscal blunders are a matter of life and death
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, whose fiscal irresponsibility has indirectly led to an extremely high coronavirus death toll in his state, deserves more criticism rather than the praise he has received of late. New York state has quickly become an epicenter of the coronavirus in the United States. According to the New York State Department...




