A video of Ben Shapiro graced my Facebook feed in which he purportedly “destroys transgenderism” during a Q&A session with an audience member. I clicked to watch, noting the predictable routine that plagues many speaker-audience contentions — nervous question, witty one-line response, laughter, repeat until bored or screaming at each other. (To Shapiro’s credit, he’s...
Norma McCorvey was just 21 years old when she learned she was pregnant for a third time in 1969. She sought an illegal abortion, and her case made its way to the Supreme Court more than three years later. In the now-infamous case Roe v. Wade, McCorvey used the pseudonym Jane Roe. She never obtained...
When President Larry Arnn welcomed the Class of 2020 to Hillsdale College at Fall Convocation, he said that our College is devoted to those ideas “which claim to be eternal.” But what on our campus speaks to the eternal nature of freedom and equality under God, or the “inestimable blessings” we receive in the...
Perhaps you should have emerged from bed, recycling the weeklong drudge of get up, get dressed, get ready. Go up the hill, show up for classes, study. But you stayed cradled in your sheets because it was the weekend — I know you’ve done this at least once because we all have — so I...
Think back to this morning, when you walked from the classroom buildings to the Union. Fresh out of a lecture, you were probably entertaining milk-and-honey visions of ancient Athens or daydreams of Dante and Beatrice. Then you pushed open Grewcock’s double doors and the shock of popstar Ariana Grande singing “Side to Side” wrenched you...