Category: Opinions

Emma Watson should be this year’s commencement speaker. We’d get two people for the price of one: a famous actress and, more importantly, Hermione Granger. It’s like inviting Dr. Jekyll, if he were drop-dead gorgeous, and if Mr. Hyde were my magical dream woman. Ms. Watson also fits perfectly with the values of Hillsdale College....

Former Sen. Chuck Hagel performed poorly in his confirmation hearings before the Senate Committee on Armed Services last week. But the Republican Party performed worse, demanding the secretary of defense nominee adhere to a failed foreign policy strategy. The questions asked by the Republican members of the Senate Armed Services Committee revealed a party committed...

Last weekend, more than 100 students from Hillsdale College boarded buses and spent the next 36 hours traveling to and from Washington, D.C., to affirm once more their allegiance to life and its Giver. There was time for the protest march and for a worship service, but there was no scheduled time to rest. The...

I have always wanted to be a part of an audience in which the speaker ends by leading an a cappella version of “Amazing Grace.” I think the experience of singing that hymn with my fellow classmates, congregated together for the last time, would be a moment to cherish. Eric Metaxas had the same idyllic...

My sister Amy has always made fun of my sparkly headbands and tendency to tear up at the scrape of a knee. In high school, I chose swimming (and mostly shopping) while she competed in brutal water polo. She is a brilliant, feisty woman who never backs down from a fight and reveres her country...