Hillsdale College News

Manuel Valle of Marshall was named to the Hillsdale College dean's list for the spring 2009 semester.

Isaac Moffett, founder and operations director at the Nampa Classical Academy, a publicly funded charter school that opens in the fall, did not like school.

Paul Rahe is the distinguished intellectual historian and professor of history at Hillsdale College.

Scientists at Harvard University have shown, for the first time, that intelligence varies among individual monkeys within a species - in this case, the cotton-top tamarin.

"Live Free or Die" is the title of author and columnist Mark Steyn's speech at Hillsdale College, reproduced in Imprimis , a Hillsdale publication that's free for the asking.

Soft Despotism, Democracy's Drift Montesquieu, Rousseau, Tocqueville and the Modern Prospect by Paul A. Rahe Yale, 400 pp., $38 Paul Rahe is a distinguished and prolific historian in the field of intellectual history who ventures with deliberate intent into political philosophy, judging what he sees.

Wesley Steeb has been a horse girl since she was 2 years old. She loves riding and grooming equines, and especially helping physically and developmentally disabled kids and adults improve their lives as a volunteer captain at Little Bit Therapeutic Riding Center in Woodinville.

A broadcast of an interview of Hillsdale College President Larry Arnn by CSPAN Founder and CEO, Brian Lamb will air this Sunday, June 14, on CSPAN's program Q & A. For more details, please click here: http://www.q-and-a.org. TOPICS: Announcements ; Constitution/Conservatism ; Culture/Society ; Government KEYWORDS: arnn ; college ; constitution ; ...

I will have to catch up with the Tony Awards later tonight. I had to miss the telecast as we were enjoying the ArtWorks Academy of Performing Arts production of "Beauty and the Beast" at Hillsdale College in Norman.

Harvard, of course, is not the only campus that has faced such a conflict. Like Harvard, Hillsdale College does not like the strings attached to federal dollars.

Progressives, by definition, teach the American past as a sad story, the repeat of which should be avoided at all costs.

IS THE CONSERVATIVE APPROACH REALLY: " LIVE FREE OR DIE? " Gary Ater June 04, 2009 ...A regular on Fox News, Mr.

My interest in the the Solomon Amendment giving recruiters access to federally funded universities was piqued by a visit to Yale in the fall of 2002.

Marian High School's longtime varsity basketball coach, Mary Lillie Cicerone, and three Marian alumnae athletes will be honored by the Catholic High School League on Monday, June 9. Mary Cicerone has been selected as the 2009 Ed Lauer "Person of the Year." In addition, Claire Aubrey, Katherine Johnson and Katie Rashid, all members of the Marian ...

Robert Francis Donovan, a Prospect Hts. alderman in the late 80's, and a member of the Des Plaines Elks Club and the China Marines Association, died on May 16.

The California Grand Lodge Inspector William Knowles and Tustin Masonic Lodge 241 Master Tom Derby presented the Hiram Award to Lodge member and Treasurer Lou Bone at a dinner on May 9 at the Tustin Ranch Golf Club.

Comments BOOK REVIEW: SOFT DESPOTISM, DEMOCRACY'S DRIFT: MONTESQUIEU, ROUSSEAU, TOCQUEVILLE, AND THE MODERN PROSPECT By Paul A. Rahe Yale University Press, $38, 280 pages Reviewed by David C. Acheson It is not easy, and perhaps not advisable, to attempt to combine a serious treatment of a political philosophy classic with a modern political ...

I read some outstanding remarks from a lecture Mark Steyn gave at Hillsdale College recently .

MARK STEYN'S column appears in several newspapers, including the Washington Times, Philadelphia's Evening Bulletin, and the Orange County Register.

During a recent stint teaching journalism at Hillsdale College , Mark Steyn delivered a lecture that he has adapted into the essay "Live free or die." In the essay Mark pursues many of the themes that he has taken up in his recent columns and in America Alone .