Hillsdale’s next Center for Constructive Alternatives will survey a history of the world’s great economists, including lectures on Ludwig Von Mises and the public-choice theories of James Buchanan. “I think it’s a very exciting CCA,” Professor of Political Economy Gary Wolfram said. “These are very top notch people that have come in.” The event will...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks on Anthony Fauci at Big Pharma CCA. More than 1,000 students and visitors attended “Big Pharma,” one of the most popular Center for Constructive Alternatives seminars in college history. The event, which was March 5-8 and the fourth CCA of the academic year, focused on COVID-19 vaccines, pharmaceutical companies, and...
The college will build eight new cottages for visitors of the John A. Halter Shooting Sports Center. “We think of it as definitely mission-oriented,” Chief Administrative Officer Rich Péwé said. “Everybody that’s coming to the range, we’re certainly trying to expose them to the ideas of freedom and intelligent patriotism.” The school has almost finished...
The rise of the modern pharmaceutical industry is the focus of next week’s Center for Constructive Alternatives lecture series. Big Pharma is the second and final CCA of the semester, running from Sunday, March. 5 to Wednesday, March 8. According to the CCA website, the series of lectures will focus on topics spanning from the...
David West is a professor of history at Ashland University in Ohio. He earned his M.A. from the University of Dallas and his Ph.D. from Boston University. His parents, Thomas and the late Grace West, are professors of politics and classics at Hillsdale College. At the recent CCA on Classical Greece and Rome, he lectured...