Category: Opinions

The administration’s relationship with security is unsettling. Not in quite the same way as the Obama administration’s relationship with the NSA is unsettling, but close. The source of my unease is the log book security keeps on who they give rides home on weekends and during the week. My formerly casual interest in this topic...

When my grandmother heard he was from Nebraska, she called him a “damn Yankee.” She is still bitter than I didn’t go to school south of the Mason-Dixon line.  My decision to go to Hillsdale was a slap in the face to her.  She couldn’t understand and asked, indignant, “Aren’t any of our schools good...

Hillsdale College has a beautiful campus, but pointless yellow eyesores threaten that reputation. The “bollards” are the pairs of bright yellow metal poles that pop up on the driving paths on campus installed last year. There are two pairs, one between the Grewcock Student Union and Delp Hall and another between the union and the...

Do you want the government to know everywhere you drive? And at your expense? Congress has recently been debating how to get money for the failing Highway Trust Fund. One of their solutions is installing event data recorders, known as a black box, in every car to keep track of mileage so they can tax...

I was ready to head to our longtime friend’s graduation party with my parents and sister around 6 p.m. one Saturday night in June 2012. I had just reached my front door when I felt my phone buzz. It was that irritating, long, slow vibration that signals a call and sends a panic through my...