Culture

It’s a disgusting, excellent work. Seldom do those two adjectives belong next to each other in a sentence, but it’s the best way to describe Nathan Harden’s new book “Sex and God at Yale.” It’s a curious combination — a memoir mixed with a devastatingly thorough exposé of the ongoing moral decay at Yale. In 1951, National Review founder William...

After twelve competitors braved their way through a night of auditions on Sept. 6., sophomore Carrie Blanton and freshman Dani Shillingstad were announced the newest vocalists in Hillsdale College’s Jazz Band. “Those two singers just gave me goosebumps,” Director of Jazz Studies and Trumpet Instructor Chris McCourry said. McCourry asked auditioners to sing “My Funny Valentine” and “All of Me”...

Up until a few weeks ago, someone would mention the words “teen singer” and immediately my mind would fill with Taylor Swift’s thin voice singing “Love Story,” or, worse, the grating strains of Rebecca Black’s Friday. But thanks to Jasmine “Birdy” Van den Bogaerde, a fifteen-year-old indie artist, my hope for talented youth is renewed. Birdy’s voice is genuine, rich,...

“Love him, hate him; you don’t know him” is the tagline advertising the new documentary: “Obama 2016.” Based on Dinesh D’Souza’s 2010 book, “The Roots of Obama’s Rage,” the film explores Obama’s past, and focuses particularly on the influence of his absent father, Barack Obama Sr., a man full of extreme anti-colonial and anti-American values.The film seeks to interpret Barack...