And these select few are the only students who wanted someone like Pence to deliver our graduation address.A 2015 graduate of Hillsdale writes, “You have put into words what I have thought since Larry Arnn endorsed Donald Trump in the 2016 election.”Ultimately, I think its relationship with the administration represents a tragic loss of opportunity—the opportunity to show a much better kind of conservatism, one centered around the timeless, beautiful, and true things that it aspires to, rather than on many of the basest impulses of the American right. No.
So let me just say, Dostoevsky’s conservatism is twofold: one, it’s a conservatism within the Orthodox Church; but two, you cannot divorce the church from Russia. Hillsdale College is a private conservative college in Hillsdale, Michigan.Founded in 1844 by abolitionists known as Free Will Baptists, it has a liberal arts curriculum that is based on the Western heritage as a product of both the Greco-Roman culture and the Judeo-Christian tradition. Hillsdale College, to my mind, is to thank for that.But, I find one element curious: What other faculty at the College are supporters?
That is to say, even students who are critical of Hillsdale’s relationships with people like Donald Trump, Mike Pence, and Rush Limbaugh describe a place that conservatives ought to love even without those ties—a traditionalist Great Books curriculum, an emphasis on Christian virtue, lots of right-leaning faculty members and students, an orientation toward learning enduring truths and wisdom. You have something to conserve, right?” I think so—but very different types of conservatism.Yeah, I think so. I'm angry that it teaches it adherents to speak in absolutes. Finally, a Hillsdale graduate from the Class of 1978 writes, “Yes, the concerns expressed in your article about Hillsdale College are valid. "Pursuing truth and defending liberty" are two ideas I hold near to my heart.
This is the course on Genesis. John Miller and Justin Jackson discuss “conservatism” in Dostoevsky’s era. Today the small liberal arts school in … Imprimis is the monthly speech digest of Hillsdale College, published by the Center for Constructive Alternatives. I still don't know how to reconcile Dr. Arnn's words and actions with my experience. When I criticize the college, it is because I love it and what it can be, at its best.The graduation speech from Pence that provided the basis for your recent article, 'Is Hillsdale College Gaining the World and Losing Its Soul? I'm a pretty cynical person, but I have hope that current and future students will continue to be guided by Hillsdale's wise faculty, who by and large prefer to focus on the eternal things rather than the temporal ones.I appreciated your recent article highlighting the inconsistencies in the school's ethos. And that's what my Hillsdale friends and I voted for and that's what we got.
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