According to the Hillsdale College website, the GOAL program “promotes service above self, thereby providing unity and focus to existent campus-wide volunteer activities.” Is it really “service over self” if the reason you’re volunteering is to help your team win a campus-clout-earning competition? “Homecoming Week volunteering is about giving a marketing boost to GOAL programs,”...
The scene is Monroe Street, Hillsdale, MI. Standing on the platform of the old depot, you wait and listen. When will it arrive? “That eerie sound of a train whistle blowing triggers memories of a distant time in the past when 40 or more trains per day ran through Hillsdale County, with 22 routed through...
After weeks of catastrophic, sporadic blackouts across the state of Texas this February, many have cast blame upon traditional energy sources. We are told that “green” energy sources such as wind power are reliable, and that the true fault lies behind conservative energy policies in the state. However, other evidence suggests that so-called “green energy”...
“Let your credo be this,” the prophetic and prolific Soviet dissident Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn once said. “Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.” During his life, Solzhenitsyn stood out as the greatest dissident of communism in the Cold War. He published multiple books, at great personal peril, that...
Cancel culture is at it again, canceling right and left, and not just metaphorically. Last week the left canceled “The Bachelor” host Chris Harrison and contestant Rachel Lindsay, as well as actress Gina Carano, who starred as Cara Dune in “The Mandalorian.” Carano’s story, however, was different from other celebrity cancellations we’ve seen in the...