Courtesy | Unsplash Hillsdale College rightly grants professors broad freedom to address student absences, including when students are sick. Yet freedom is not license, and professors should not use their liberty to craft policies that penalize students for illness. Our college’s policy articulates our school’s longstanding commitment to professors’ academic freedom. According to the policy,...
To hear Democrats and the press corps tell it, Republican lawmakers took away healthcare from millions of poor and disabled people this summer. “People will die,” Democratic House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said in May. “Trump’s Bill Slashes the Safety Net,” The New York Times wrote in June. But push aside the rhetoric and look...
The only proper response is, “Oh, my God.” On Wednesday afternoon, Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA, was shot dead. The conservative commentator was answering questions from students at an outdoor event at Utah Valley University when someone fired at him. Footage showed Kirk’s neck jerk backward. He was taken to a hospital and,...
Putting money into a checking account is akin to burying your talents, except the talents waste away slowly in the dirt. Minute by minute, the cold, hard cash you earn from your job loses its spending power. Whether you put it in your checking account, hoard it in Venmo, or just keep it on hand,...
Courtesy | Unsplash When we picture liberal arts, we usually envision discussions on the merits of Aristotelian philosophy, studying Homer’s epic poetry in its native language, or having that third debate on predestination versus free will. College President Larry Arnn doesn’t. At this semester’s first senior capstone lecture, he said physics and mathematics are the...