By Nikolaos Friedrich Suppose fashion were a woman. What then? Would she wear a midi skirt and a crew-neck blouse? Or would she wear a tight skirt and a revealing top, hoping to catch a young man’s eye? Certainly, the answer is clear to anyone who has stepped outside on a warm summer day. Men do not help the issue of immodesty. They do not … Continue reading An Attack on Fashion
by Joseph P. Oldsboy, freshman | edited by Zachary Chen As every educated person everywhere knows, Aristotle once defined the concept of true happiness or eudaimonia as an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue. What most people don’t know, however, is that he could have also defined virtue in terms of “The Duck Song 5.” In what follows, I shall attempt to prove … Continue reading Aristotelian Conceptions of the Good in “The Duck Song 5”
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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