Category: Opinions

What a relief to be graduating this spring. These past four years have been among the best. I received a wonderful education, competed on a talented swim team, grew tremendously in my faith, and met the people that I expect to be my best friends for life. I am not happy to leave. I am...

Dear Sen. Ted Cruz, Thank you, on behalf of the Class of 2013, for accepting our invitation to speak at commencement. We’re excited to hear you speak, but we want to warn you of something. Among arguably the most conservative group of college students in the United States, Republican politicians have earned a bad name...

How unbearably trite it is to call Hillsdale College a “bubble.” Yet many of us do. We feel that there is something special about our fair campus. The people are generally kind, moral, generous, and unusually invested in the pursuit of knowledge. More than this, however, life away from the college can seem mundane. The...

This week, thousands of conservatives from all over the nation will convene in Washington, D.C., for the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, known as CPAC. Four weeks ago, hundreds of libertarian students convened in the same city for the annual Students for Liberty Conference. The SLC conference has grown remarkably since its first gathering in...

Hillsdale College freshmen come from a variety of backgrounds. Some were homeschooled, others attended public schools. Some come from Christian families, others are agnostic. But most have something in common: they won’t spend the summer reading “Nicomachean Ethics” and “Founding Father,” the two books Hillsdale requires students to read. Both of the current required texts...