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Weekly for April 20: 27 issues, 10 seniors, one conversation
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Weekly for April 20: 27 issues, 10 seniors, one conversation

When Matthew Broderick’s character Ferris Bueller said, “Life moves pretty fast, if you don’t stop and look around once in awhile you might miss it,” the last thing the audience thought of was college journalism. But for the senior staff members of The Hillsdale Collegian, it’s a quote that shows the reality of our last...

Turkey’s March Towards Erdogan’s Authoritarianism
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Turkey’s March Towards Erdogan’s Authoritarianism

While Americans fret about the potential for authoritarianism in the form of President Donald Trump, the Turkish people face a referendum this Saturday with the all-too-real potential to enable and legitimize a truly authoritarian president in their own nation. After an attempted military coup last July, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan took drastic action to strengthen...

Trump can use the Syria crisis to restore the Constitution
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Trump can use the Syria crisis to restore the Constitution

On the morning of April 6, the United States launched 59 cruise missiles at the the Assad-regime controlled Shayrat Airbase, in a direct response to a chemical weapons attack the regime committed against rebel forces. Approximately nine Syrian soldiers died in the strike. This attack — which Congress did not approve — brought a troubling...

Central Hall | Collegian Archives
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Growing, graduating with Hillsdale is beautiful

College is beautiful because the community it creates can exist under no other circumstances. When students come together at Hillsdale, the campus initiates them into a wonderfully new environment — each class brings a sort of communal rebirth that is allowed ever so rarely in our lifetimes. Each year, Hillsdale grants us the opportunity and...

We can all learn from Trump’s courage
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We can all learn from Trump’s courage

Stupid, provocative, oafish, and dangerous —  leftists in the media used those words and more to describe Ronald Reagan during his presidency. Six years later, those words seem an awful lot like those critics use to describe President Donald Trump. When you have a 7-foot bronze statue of the man staring down at you on...