Category: Opinions

We’ve all seen them. The tucked-in polo shirts. The corduroy skirts. The awkwardness, quirks, and Princess Bride costumes that scream “homeschooler!” They gasp at hearing obscenities, censure parties more rowdy than swing dancing, and may not understand a “that’s what she said” joke. We know them, we mock them, we ignore them: the Fundies. And...

Dear Donors, As you tour campus this week, you will see us students streaming out of classrooms all morning and afternoon, bustling past you on our way to class, work, meetings, and practice. We may be more rumpled and less cheerful than you expected. It’s midterm season at Hillsdale College and we have games, recitations,...

The government wasn’t the only thing shutting down last week. On Tuesday, the New York City Opera announced its intention to file for bankruptcy. And on the same day, the Minnesota Orchestra, already locked out for more than a year by management, lost both its conductor and the head of its Composer Institute. The day...

He educated himself out of poverty, served in the Marine Corps during the Korean War, and converted from radical Marxism to become a free market apologist. Milton Friedman even mentored him. Thomas Sowell, the well-known economist, deserves to be Hillsdale College’s next graduation speaker. As a prominent and decorated conservative writer, he would fit flawlessly...

With the recent federal government shutdown, America is in a state of economic and political crisis. Yet crises are nothing new to American history. In 1858, a then-future president stood before the state Republican convention in Illinois and proclaimed, “[Agitation] will not cease, until a crisis shall have been reached…a house divided against itself cannot...