Category: Miscellaneous

ISSUE #49 | MAY 2025, Miscellaneous, Poetry

Creative Writing Awards: “On Caspian, July 2018”

By Campbell Collins The gloomy clouds hang just above the treesBut we, determined, dive, and once againUphold tradition. Rising now, the breezeRipples the lake and warns us of the rain.Yet on we swim, small froggish strokes, and rushUngainly toward the hazy, distant beach.The journeys mark each summer out for us:The year a cousin feared for snakes beneathAnd, wide-eyed, watched the deep for slithering things.The year … Continue reading Creative Writing Awards: “On Caspian, July 2018”

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ISSUE #46 | OCT 2024, Miscellaneous, Satire

A Humble Suggestion

by Jameson Payne  There is a specter haunting Michigan—haunting the whole world. One by one, our venerable institutions topple, swept away by the tide of hubristic reformers, new-fangled utopians, and latter-day fanatics. Harvard has fallen to the Bolshevists, Yale to the Hegelians, Berkeley to the Gnostics. The situation is grim. But, it is in being a solitary light within this dark that Hillsdale finds its … Continue reading A Humble Suggestion

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ISSUE #44: MARCH 2024, Miscellaneous

The Shape of a Voice: The Beauty of Relationship and Redemption in A Silent Voice

by Kiri Forrester A Silent Voice is a 2016 animated film directed by Naoko Yamada and written by Reiko Yoshida, which tells the coming-of-age story of a high school boy named Shouya, a former bully who struggles with internal guilt and thus has difficulty building relationships. He seeks to repair the past by befriending Shouko, the deaf girl whom he bullied in elementary school. Netflix … Continue reading The Shape of a Voice: The Beauty of Relationship and Redemption in A Silent Voice

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ISSUE #30 | OCT 2020, Miscellaneous

Berlioz’s Song: A Brief Dialogue on Love and Wanting

Berlioz’s Song: A Brief Dialogue on Love and Wanting Persons: François-the Cynic, and composer Hector Berlioz-the Romantic The Scene: The deck of a ferry, crossing the English Channel to Britain. January, 1831. THE CYNIC. Pardon me, sir, I don’t mean to interrupt your writing, but are you Hector Berlioz? THE ROMANTIC. Ah, yes, I am. Always a pleasure to meet an admirer, please sit down! … Continue reading Berlioz’s Song: A Brief Dialogue on Love and Wanting

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ISSUE #28 | MAR 2020, Miscellaneous

Reborn in Wonder: How Belize Re-Taught Me to Love the Liberal Arts

Last August, I moved to Belize to teach humanities at a liberal arts junior college. It would be natural to assume that my decision, coming on the heels of four years of studying history at Hillsdale, arose from my confidence in the value of liberal arts education. That assumption would be wrong. If there’s any message a liberal arts college wants you to believe, it’s … Continue reading Reborn in Wonder: How Belize Re-Taught Me to Love the Liberal Arts

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ISSUE #20 | MAR 2018, Miscellaneous

Leg in a Jar: The Amputation of the World’s Greatest Actress

When an employee at Bordeaux University was told to rearrange the morbid artifacts of an out-of-the-way store closet full of shattered skulls, guns, hangman’s ropes, and aborted fetuses of siamese twins in 2009, he moved a few jars to find, on the back of the shelf, a tall, sealed beaker covered with decades of dust. It contained the lost amputated right leg of the great … Continue reading Leg in a Jar: The Amputation of the World’s Greatest Actress

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Letter From the Editor, March 2017

By Chandler Ryd   An essay is a room. In writing, the author chooses words with which to furnish it before inviting you all, the readers, to enter. Nouns are the chairs and couches where you can rest; verbs are the tables—hard surfaces—that allow you to lean forward and work; metaphors are well-placed lamps and windows, illuminating and casting contrast.  The sum total, the atmosphere … Continue reading Letter From the Editor, March 2017

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A Christmas Karl

A Christmas Karl “You know Engels and Brezhnev and Trotsky and Lenin Castro, the Chairman, and Krushchev and Stalin But do you recall The most famous Comrade of all?” The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggle.  From the patrician and the plebeian, the lord and the serf, the bourgeoisie and the proletariat, we see this struggle. Here is the … Continue reading A Christmas Karl

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Satire: “The Bone” to Tighten Food Security

By Noah Weinrich REYKJAVIK, ICELAND—In order to prevent food pilfering, wastage, embezzlement, and other felonious offenses in the dining hall, Budget On-Campus Nutrition Executives, the dining providers at Iceland Community College, have announced a plan to implement stricter controls on dining hall traffic.  The comprehensive security measures will be put in place at the beginning of the Fall 2016 semester. BONE has already announced their … Continue reading Satire: “The Bone” to Tighten Food Security

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