“Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth?” It’s a good question, and philosopher Eleonore Stump thinks we misread God’s answer to Job’s questioning of his goodness. We often say, with Job’s friends, that God tells him to sit down and stop asking questions: “Just,” stoic Christian soldiers say, “suffer. Faith is...
“Ready Player One” may be the best movie of 2018 — but only if you transform your theater viewing into a multi-sensual experience. Here’s a short list of things my girlfriend Hannah and I did to keep ourselves from leaving the theater during this latest Steven Spielberg sci-fi trainwreck: 1. Engaged in a knuckle-biting thumb...
Tyler Blanski ’06 came to Hillsdale wanting to be a saint; he just didn’t know it yet. These were danger days, when the strains of Minnesota sweet-strumming evangelicalism clashing with the lo-fi screeches of Beck’s “The New Pollution” rattled around inside his head. Both were pulling him toward Christ, but he did not know how....
Last week, in a heroic money-saving venture, a University of Wisconsin campus proposed the sacrifice of 13 college majors, mostly in the humanities. The Washington Post heard echoes of Governor Scott Walker’s ill-conceived and ill-fated 2015 plan to shift the mission statements of the university system from the “search for truth” to meeting “the state’s...
“A Wrinkle in Time,” it seems, is meant to be a book — and nothing more than that. Last month I warned fans in a Collegian review of Madeleine L’Engle’s novel “A Wrinkle in Time” that Disney’s movie adaptation would disappoint if it departed from the foundations of the book and swapped a story for...