Category: Opinions

Straw polls conducted on the Hillsdale College campus after the second Republican primary debate on Sept. 16 showed that students favor not the expected politicians, but a candidate with different experience:  Ben Carson, retired pediatric neurosurgeon. Twenty-three percent of students said they would vote for Carson the next day. Rubio and Carly Fiorina followed with...

Virtual Reality was a technology poised to transform the gaming industry. Financial analysts predicted it would be a $30 billion market within five years, dominated overwhelmingly by the gaming industry. However, it soon emerged into popular awareness as an ideal technique of all types of storytelling, including journalism. Virtual Reality, commonly abbreviated VR, is the...

Tomorrow marks the day there was no more Che: Oct. 9 is the 48th anniversary of Guevara’s execution in Bolivia. In an upper-level Spanish class in my high school, we spent three class periods watching “Motorcycle Diaries,” a movie based on a young Ernesto Guevara’s trip through South America with a friend. While the movie...

Okay, so John Boehner is out. What does it matter if he stays? Nothing good is likely to come of it; certainly, nothing good has come of it thus far. What does it matter if he leaves? There is little hope that Republicans will use his departure to accomplish anything good. The stark reality of...

This summer, I packed my hiking boots and headed to Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park, a memorial composed of four Civil War battlefields in eastern Virginia, to be a historical interpreter for the National Park Services. I looked forward to traveling, pursuing my history degree, and working on the front lines of my field....