Joshua Fincher is a visiting assistant professor of classics. This interview was conducted and compiled by Tracy Wilson and has been edited for length and clarity. What languages do you know? Speaking-wise, I only know German, French, and a little bit of Mandarin. I can read Biblical Hebrew, Sanskrit, Ugaritic, Avestan, Greek, and Latin. If...
Stephanie Merrick is the managing editor at the Washington Free Beacon, a conservative publication in Washington, D.C. The following is an excerpt from an interview that was recorded this week with Stefan Kleinhenz on Radio Free Hillsdale. What is the Free Beacon? We started out as combat journalism. I think we were the first ones...
When Kelly Franklin received his first fountain pen from his mother, he had no idea of the obsessive hobby it would spark. Franklin, assistant professor of English, said he has seen a notable rise in fountain pen use and sales over the last decade or so. At one point, many fountain pen and ink companies...
John Somerville is a professor of English. This interview was conducted and compiled by Tracy Wilson and has been edited for length and clarity. What is one memory from your childhood that stands out to you? The event I recall took place during the South Korean student revolution in 1960. My brother, my friends, and...
“The more power one has, the more one must be willing to serve,” Pope Francis says early on in “God Is Young,” a book-length interview published in Italian this past March. The English version of the interview only became available on Oct. 2, in conjunction with the Catholic bishops’ “Synod on Young People.” Francis agreed...