Courtesy | Unsplash For the last 30 years, the Catholic church at Stanford University has baptized about four adults annually. This Easter, its pastor baptized 16, almost all of them Stanford students. What is happening at Stanford is the same across the country: Young Americans are converting to Catholicism. This makes sense, because 2026 is...
Courtesy | Unsplash President Donald Trump’s push for “super intelligence” threatens the American way of life. Trump signed an executive order last month to replace the term “artificial intelligence” with “super intelligence” in all federal communications. According to a White House press release, “super intelligence” better represents a promised future of American technological progress. While...
Courtesy | Unsplash I returned to Simpson Residence one night this semester to find an exorbitant amount of purple and pink glitter sprinkled all over the dorm’s front walkway. The glitter was tracked into all parts of the dorm. We still don’t know who did it, but regardless of who executed this prank, it was...
It’s easy to think of the humanities as “useless,” “fake,” and “pretentious,” full of students who spend too much time interpreting meaningless details. Similarly, some people think the sciences are “boring,” “tedious,” and “full of weird, nerdy kids” who just want to find a job and ignore “higher things.” But we don’t throw out Shakespeare...
Courtesy | Unsplash I recently flew home to the Big Apple, and the older woman who took me to the airport from Hillsdale was one of the nicest ladies I have ever met. She grew up on a farm, came from a family that has run the same business for four generations, and has been...