Throughout my childhood, my family went on yearly camping trips to the Rocky Mountains. My parents both studied science in college and graduate school and often pulled my siblings and me to the side of the hiking trail to teach us the names of the wildflowers or to show the hoofprint left by a deer....
2015-2016 was a great year for the Collegian. We expanded, adding an extra page of Sports and an extra page of City News. We saw increased readership in the town of Hillsdale. We gained national attention when we broke the news story of being left off the Department of Education’s College Scorecard. We were named...
Michael Lucchese asks (“Bring Trump voters back into the GOP,” April 7), “What should conservatives do when we wrest our movement away from national populism and Donald Trump?” But is the conservative movement worth saving in the first place? Lucchese supports William F. Buckley’s method of making conservatism “respectable” by purging “extremists.” But that entails...
According to a Time magazine list of the top 100 young adult novels, “We’re living in a golden age of young-adult literature, when books ostensibly written for teens are equally adored by readers of every generation.” The widespread popularity of young adult fiction shows that readers of all ages appreciate the message of hope that...
I came to Hillsdale College because I wanted a normal college experience. Of course, I wanted Hillsdale’s liberal education, to read the canon of the western tradition — you’ve seen the brochures. I was skeptical, too, of the monastic environment of “great books” schools like the 100-student Thomas More College of Liberal Arts or 400-strong...