The Hillsdale College business office holds money for all clubs and employs policies to prevent dishonesty. A business office employee told The Collegian it structures club accounts this way to preclude people from knowing the club’s full balance — a large sum of money for long-established clubs as well as those which charge membership...
The fourth time I pull my head out of a District Taco garbage can in Washington, D.C., I still can’t find my credit card. The discarded plates of diners who came before me have been scraped clean in my frantic search for the piece of plastic I failed to bet against. It’s an afternoon in...
“Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.” A harsh message for 400 eager graduates—but maybe the one we need the most. It’s a line from The Princess Bride, a movie that my generation grew up watching and rewatching. It was my favorite movie as a child. Nothing else quite catches that...
A young lady recently told me “Rowan, with your beard you could be Santa, except you’re too dark.” She thought it was funny. She was putting me in a box where, in her mind, she determines my identity and what I can and cannot do. Those in the conservative tradition tend to emphasize that we...
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg The conservative commentariat flew into a rage when Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg announced she would not attend President Trump’s first annual State of the Union address. Perhaps conservatives should be more sympathetic to Ginsburg’s decision — perhaps the president should follow her lead and refuse to show up to...