Category: Opinions

My mom informs me that being a housewife is more than painting your nails and eating bonbons. She volunteers, takes care of my grandmother, sings in the church choir, and is a full-time law partner. I thought being a housewife meant just baking and singing Frank Sinatra to yourself in the kitchen. In my efforts...

I used to always complain about seeing heroes walk out into the sunset unscathed. Now it seems they’re lucky if they survive with half their limbs intact. Death is the new cliché in television. And though George R.R. Martin’s habit for the mass murdering of fictional characters does make for greater suspense in “Game of...

One Sunday morning a few falls ago, I woke up alert, anxious, and excited — the same kind of feeling I got as a child when I woke at daybreak on a summer morning ready to dash around Anaheim’s Disneyland park. This particular Sunday morning promised every ounce of mayhem as those summer days, but...

Hillsdale College reported a 94 percent placement rate of graduating seniors in either a graduate school program or a desired profession last year. At first this number seems impressive, but in comparison to similar private college statistics it is nothing but average. This statistic has always bothered me, not because of its numerical value but...

Newspapers have undeniably taken a hit due to the past decade’s technology spike.   Last year, the Council of Economic Advisors reported that the print newspaper industry shed 28.4 percent of jobs in the field since 2007. It concluded that newspapers “show no signs that the downward trend will reverse itself in the near future.”...