Category: Opinions

When I was but a wee high school student, I went with my church’s youth group to a charity event called One Homeless Night. We attempted to sleep on flattened cardboard boxes underneath Interstate 4 to simulate the experience of a homeless person. With the thundering traffic, looming lights, and dirty discomfort, I didn’t get...

I am at the wrong school. Hillsdale is a place focused on the liberal arts, on the ideals of literature, philosophy, art, and reason. I, on the other hand, am a math and physics double-major — hardly typical here. While those subjects may seem horribly pragmatic and insignificant compared to the deep, human ideas found...

In her new book, “Big, Hot, Cheap, and Right: What America Can Learn from the Strange Genius of Texas,” the quality of author Erica Grieder’s narrative inverts the progress of Texas. Texas began as an unpromising territory peopled by opportunists and grew to become “one of America’s genuine powerhouses.” But Grieder’s book unfolds in the...

This year, many students in the Opinions section have challenged us to resist judgment and stereotypes. They’ve urged us to recall that “in the end, we’re all—first and foremost—Hillsdale students” and that fundies are “really just like you.” Just last week, one student pointedly asked “when did we all decide that the job defines the...

When New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie hosts a town hall meeting, attendees can count on two things: flaring tempers and off-color language. At a town hall in May, the Republican Governor defended post-Superstorm Sandy measures to build protective sand dunes along the Jersey shore. While most homeowners accepted government compensation for portions of their land,...