Category: Opinions

To the double major who takes 18 credits, runs four student organizations, and works three jobs, I ask: How do you do it? I know how I did it once: sleep deprivation, rushing about, ignoring exhaustion, yet never letting that forced smile fall from my face. It’s not worth it. Our culture, especially at Hillsdale,...

“Kate Middleton is pregnant with her second child,” announced Vogue Daily last Monday. Headlines in London papers and the news bulletins around the world all read the same. Prime Minister David Cameron congratulated the happy couple: “I’m delighted by the happy news that they’re expecting another baby.” It seems fairly normal until you realize that...

“Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare.” This line, written by American poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, expresses a sentiment contrary to what many Hillsdale students may think. The popular belief that mathematics is pure calculation ignores the beauty of logic to which Millay alludes. This logic, critical to our liberal arts education, pervades all...

Every day, emails flood mailboxes with advertisements for speeches, discussions, luncheons, presentations, meetings, concerts, and recitals, among other things. Students here do not suffer from a lack of mental stimulation. But one thing students here often do lack is the collegiate combo of fresh air and school spirit, conveniently found at home football games. This...

Everything changed for Ray Rice this Monday. Last Sunday, Rice was an NFL star, an elite running back for the Baltimore Ravens. The past few months had been rocky after a domestic violence scandal: In February, Rice knocked his fiancée unconscious in an Atlantic City casino elevator. But on Sunday, as Rice served the first...