Category: Opinions

Same-sex marriage advocates kiss on the steps of the Supreme Court and students attending religious educational institutions are preparing to kiss tax exemptions goodbye. Obergefell v. Hodges heralds the birth of same-sex marriage rights, the conclusion of a decade-long civil dispute threatening to undermine a centuries-old institution. The proposed First Amendment Defense Act (FADA) is...

Rand Paul, the self-described “libertarian-ish” Senator from Kentucky, is not the presidential frontrunner—he’s even fallen in recent polls. He is not the most heavily-covered in the news. Some pundits proclaim his presidential campaign is already over, despite Time magazine’s description as “the most interesting man in politics” (‘The Reinventions of Rand Paul,’ Oct. 16, 2014)....

Class of 2019: welcome. You have come from all over the country and the world with varied educational backgrounds—public, private, charter and home schools, to name a few—to be united by this college in the common task of higher education. You’ve likely already begun to engage in some of the inevitable, inexhaustible Hillsdale debates as...

Fall semester of 2014, approximately 46 students, including myself, were enrolled in Associate Professor of Philosophy Nathan Schlueter’s Theology of the Body class, where we studied the teachings of John Paul II on sex, marriage, and family. When I saw the email advertising this class offering, I immediately did everything I could to ensure that...

It’ll be really sad to see this class of seniors graduate in a little over two weeks. Most of us have friends in the senior class — whether on sports teams, in campus groups, or fraternities or sororities. A new freshman class will come in, and this year’s juniors will become the new seniors, but...