Dear Editor, In last week’s issue, sophomore Sean Hyaduck argued that President Donald Trump was justified in pardoning Joe Arpaio, the former sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona. As a lifelong resident of the county, I have long been aware of Arpaio’s impact in my community and the causes of the charges leveled against him. Readers...
Two achievements mark excellence in a commencement speaker: connection to audience and timeliness of message. Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan enjoys both. She should be Hillsdale’s 2018 commencement speaker. Noonan wrote speeches for a man revered — and immortalized in statue — on Hillsdale’s campus: Ronald Reagan. She wrote his Challenger explosion speech —...
Sixteen years ago, the Twin Towers fell. Shattered glass and broken paradigms littered the streets of New York City. Pedestrians gazed at the descending rubble in disbelief. Brick by brick, their naive notions of a safe and good world splintered as each stone hit the cement. A torrent of cement, steel, and glass hit the...
With the looming threat of hurricanes and tropical storms, some parts of the country have been impacted directly by physical and emotional devastation, while the rest of the country has had to bear the heavy burden of our fellow citizens. When disaster strikes, American’s forget all that divides us. We forget identity politics and renew...
“I’ll make a prediction: I think he’s going to be just fine,” President Trump announced to a room of his supporters in Phoenix, indicating his intention to pardon former sheriff Joe Arpaio of a recently acquired criminal contempt conviction. Arpaio, an 85-year old resident of Maricopa County, was found guilty of violating a 2011 court...