We have been told all of our lives that voting is our civic duty. However, when the polls close this Tuesday, will it matter whom we voted for? The population is large, misinformed, and apathetic, and the legislator’s primary concern is self-perpetuation. The current system is not worth buying into, so cast your vote by...
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October 30, 2014July 12, 2022Opinions
The fallacy of non-ideology
Clichés make for bad writing, but in politics they can be downright dangerous. That was the thesis of Bronte Wigen’s recent Collegian op-ed, “The Jeopardy of Political Jargon.” Her identification of several phrases common to the national political discourse that lend themselves to ambiguity and misdirection was interesting, but even more so was the question...
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October 30, 2014July 12, 2022Opinions
Reformation day: 500 years later
For Lutherans, Reformation Day is about being catholic. And that means it’s all about the central article of the catholic faith: How Christ atoned for the world’s sin on the cross and thus justifies those incapable of earning salvation themselves. The question of what is “catholic” (a word meaning “universal,” as in the “one holy...
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October 30, 2014July 12, 2022Opinions
To vote
The time is fast approaching for students registered to vote either to send in absentee voter ballots or exercise their right to vote in person. Yet like other college-aged students, too many Hillsdale students will forego that right. Even worse, a large number of those foregoing the right to vote don’t even believe it matters....
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October 30, 2014July 12, 2022Opinions
Reformation day: 500 years later
Self-reflection and inner reformation are essential to the fruitful Christian life. “In antiquity, the Latin noun reformatio referred to the changing of a bad present situation by returning to the good and better times of the past,” notes a recent Vatican letter from the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity. This letter recalls the Reformation’s...