Category: Opinions

Against the tide proclaiming how vital social media are in our personal and professional lives, a sudden backlash against social media has occurred. Viral videos showing how preoccupied we are with social media and modern technology are rapidly shared across Facebook. People post statuses declaring their decision to delete their social media accounts, only to...

A branch of the feminist movement has a new marketing strategy: Exploiting young girls. FCKH8.com, a t-shirt company that promotes human rights, recently released an appalling video featuring five young girls dressed as princesses spewing feminist ideology and prolific profanity to promote female empowerment. The f-word (no, not “feminism”) was thrown around carelessly to advance...

It is better to suffer injustice than to do injustice. This fundamental formula formed the basis of the ethics of Socrates. Upon it he based his politics; he adhered to it even to the point of death. I may disagree with him on the precise duties that are owed to one’s government, but this fundamental...

Another election approaches, and soon hordes of “rationally ignorant” citizens (myself included) will shuffle to the ballots to vote. But we can’t really blame them (ourselves?) for their ignorance: Contemporary political discourse is boring, predictable, and all in all deplorable. Everyone appeals to some conception of justice, and these conceptions usually depend upon posited, universal...

Less than a week from today, Election Day 2014 will arrive. Indeed, thanks to early voting and overwhelming media coverage, it has, for all intents and purposes, arrived already. To Hillsdale, this means a bit more than to students at other campuses. In 2012, students not only traveled to the key swing state of Ohio...