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What Trump can learn from London
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What Trump can learn from London

Shortly after the terrorist attacks in London, President Donald Trump began to voice his thoughts via Twitter. And as is become his habit, he did so recklessly. Trump’s obsession with Twitter is hurting not only his agenda, but he is also embarrassing the country and the conservative movement, which had hoped to make substantive progress...

The Importance of Identity: Why Hillsdale College Should Consider Secularization
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The Importance of Identity: Why Hillsdale College Should Consider Secularization

The construction of Christ Chapel cost Hillsdale College the exorbitant amount of $28.5 million, and inconvenienced students by restricting their use of the quad. Yet what is most controversial about the Chapel is that “[it’s] location in the middle of everything is profoundly intentional.” The deliberate location of a Christian symbol in the center of...

The chapel will not change the nature of religion on campus
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The chapel will not change the nature of religion on campus

A foreboding irony settled in the classroom as Professor of English Dwight Lindley read from Gerard Manley Hopkins’s “Binsey Poplars,” the morning workers cleared trees on the quad for chapel construction. Outside the window of Lane Hall, one could see the last of the trees being reduced to a stump under a cloudy sky. “All...