On March 25, the United States branch of World Vision announced that it would hire individuals in same-sex marriages. World Vision reversed the policy change one day later after protests from donors and the Evangelical community at large. On March 25 and 26, World Vision lost...
Category: Opinions
Hillsdale should have a shop class
The floorboards in my car are rusting and rotting out and I haven’t the faintest clue how to fix them. Yet I can design a society from the ground up and discuss G.W.F. Hegel, economic coercion, and New Jersey education policy. The only time I’ve ever built a birdhouse I fit the pieces together so...
Call your mom
Call your mom while you’re at college. It took me four months, a reminder from the dean, and a nasty email to figure that out. In fact, do it every week, your life will improve. If I am truthful, that single injunction is sufficient advice for this whole piece. But heck, I’m a graduating senior,...
Searching for Life and Light: Dillard and Robinson
In this semester’s “Life and Light” column, I have explored authors who have, in some form, responded to the literary and cultural modernism of roughly the past century. Rather than asking the tradition’s questions — What is God? What is Man? And what has each to do with the other? —the modern finds himself severed...
Politics at Hillsdale: Superb, valuable, and well-rounded
“Our student body, as a whole, avoids asking the hard questions about what justice requires of our society.” When I read that gem of a line from last week’s Collegian op-ed — “The liberal arts must include opposing thinkers” — I was incredulous. Garrett West’s argument that all Hillsdale students live in an ideological echo...


