Our society and education system has failed to understand the true extent of Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy as a great American in our arduous and protracted history of the struggle for freedom and justice. As an activist, King valued each and every human life, judging them not “by the color of their skin,...
Category: Opinions
Oprah’s fame doesn’t threaten Trump in 2020
When Oprah Winfrey took the stage at the Golden Globes to speak about the evils of sexual assault, pundits began to spread rumors of a 2020 presidential candidacy. The speech was so well received that we just might forget Oprah is a longtime friend of Harvey Weinstein. Rich Lowry, editor-in-chief of National Review,...
Meal plans need more flexibility
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas described the college as “a trustee of the heritage that finds its clearest expression in the American experiment of self-government under law” at Hillsdale College’s 146th commencement speech in 2016. This reflects the college’s mission statement “to develop the minds and improve the hearts of students” and to...
The Weekly: No, Hillsdale isn’t discriminatory
Waving around the 500-page GOP tax bill, Sen. Jeff Merkley mischaracterized Hillsdale College on Friday night in a video posted on Twitter as he argued against an amendment that would exempt any college that refuses federal money from an excise tax on their endowments. “[Hillsdale] proceeds to not take federal funds, because it wanted to...
You can still enjoy dank memes without net neutrality
If the memes are right, a net neutrality regulation expected to be revoked next week is the only thing standing between you and an overpriced internet bill for unloaded emails and buffering episodes of “Stranger Things.” But repealing net neutrality will not make your internet more expensive and sluggish. Neither will it crush competition and...




