Category: Opinions

I’m going to write an eloquent and sophisticated opinion of the good, the true, and the beautiful. But first, as the song says, let me take a selfie. For those whose lives have not been made complete by the The Chainsmokers’ hit single “#Selfie”, here is a summary: The music video opens with a girl...

Summer courses at Hillsdale College are like intense physical fitness for the brain. If those brain muscles are a little flabby, don’t fret: One dose of upper-level English will tighten up all those loose trains-of-thought in no time. Covering a semester’s worth of material in one three-week session is not for the faint of heart,...

I don’t really like Nathaniel Hawthorne’s writing. And I don’t like Ernest Hemingway or Gerard Manley Hopkins that much either. I’m not saying that their writing is bad; I’m not saying that it shouldn’t be considered “literature” — I’m simply saying that I don’t enjoy reading it.

Discourse with others only works if you both share basic assumptions. That point seems to have escaped Garrett West as he wrote last week’s op-ed “Discourse: better than debate.” In the piece, West chided me for portraying, in a previous editorial, the majority of American political science students as progressives, cultivated to become cogs in...

Go back where you came from! Find out where you’re from, and what place served the beginning of your journey in this life. Everyone has a place that she remembers from childhood — a grandparent’s house playroom, a block of a city, or the old garden and hitching post at grandmother’s hose. There are memories...