Category: Opinions

Hillsdale College is unique for its refusal to accept federal funding, and also for its statues. The only statue of Margaret Thatcher in North America, for example, is on Hillsdale’s campus. The college honors leaders such as Thatcher, Reagan, and Washington with statues on the school’s Liberty Walk. Positioned on the Quad, in the Union,...

Maybe it’s the community bathrooms. Maybe it’s the Winston Churchill quote painted on the wall. Maybe it’s the cadence runs. Maybe it’s the organ in the lobby, and maybe it’s the Thursday night Feast. It was during my first week of school freshman year that I first began to experience the joys of Galloway and...

Last week, I tried to take the most bitter perspective on winter as the Underwarm Man while having a bit of fun with Dostoevsky at the same time. This week, with an encomium to winter, I would like to offer my community a more positive perspective on these cold days. From somewhere in the early...

The two of us — Andy Reuss and Matt O’Sullivan — have spent the last three-and-a-half years attempting to justify our education here, and this is what we’ve come up with: We’ll be better suited for graduate school; companies will find our liberal arts background appealing; our education is good in and of itself, forming...

You need only one. Ten years ago, my father donated a kidney to a former co-worker’s spouse. Ten weeks ago, my mother donated her kidney to her friend. In a way, they gave all of themselves. In reality, they gave an extra, four-by-two-by-one inch organ weighing about four ounces. In this, they gave life. Perhaps...