The Hillsdale Forum

05/05/2020

It's published! If you need a break from finals (or if you're already done!), find your copy in this week's SAB email. Posts will go up on the blog soon!

29/04/2020

Coming soon to an inbox near you!

The Forum will be sent your way via the SAB newsletter. Over the next few days, the essays will also be posted on our blog (www.hillsdaleforum.com). We're excited to share this issue with you!

Here's a sneak peak at senior Cait Weighner's essay:

"If I had to assign one adjective to my 'academic career,' it might be unfinishedness. For every paper I have written or class I have taken, any sense of accomplishment or completion has been easily eclipsed by the magnitude of the unsaid, the unread, of that which simply exceeded my grasp. The deadline outruns me, and, with a stubborn sense of disbelief, I surrender my little stack of paper. Too often it seems the poor staple, rather than the thesis, does the hard honest work of holding things together. This is the point, of course. If our studies are truly “liberal” they ought to coax us to loosen that white-knuckled grip on the world, our ingrained and unconscious pretensions to control. The philosopher’s task is to love wisdom, never to master it."

28/10/2019

Calling for submissions! Pitch an essay idea by Wednesday, October 30th for a chance to be published in our December issue. What have you been thinking about this semester? We can't wait to hear from you.

26/10/2019

Friends, today’s the day! The October issue is here and you can find your very own copy, hot off the presses, in the Union.

Happy Reading!

19/10/2019

"Entering this space, a space nearly luminous with gold-and-jewel-toned mosaic iconography, I felt an immediate sense of its gravity. It felt altogether fitting to pause, look up and around, and soak in the many stylized, Byzantine depictions of saints and lofty paradisal floral motifs that fill almost every square foot of the church’s interior. While the art is wonderfully preserved and spectacularly executed, its purpose as a part of living tradition and as part of daily reverence takes obvious precedence over mere display or even artistic appreciation." —Marcella Brylski '20

To read the rest of Brylski's essay, keep an eye out for the October issue of THE HILLSDALE FORUM. It'll be hitting campus just in time for Parents Weekend!

26/08/2019

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Welcome back to campus! Tell us what's been on your mind this summer—send your essay pitches to [email protected] by September 2nd. We look forward to hearing from you!

06/08/2019

Staff applications for the '19-'20 school year are officially open!

We are seeking a new managing editor and several content editors. Hillsdale students, if you've enjoyed The Forum and would like to be considered for a staff position, please email an up-to-date resume and a cover letter detailing your interest to [email protected].

The application deadline is Friday, August 16th. Please feel free to reach out if you have any questions about the positions or applications.

Have a wonderful rest of the summer. We look forward to hearing from you!

01/05/2019

It's here, Hillsdale! Grab a coffee and your copy of the last Forum issue of the year for an extra boost of inspiration before finals start.

29/04/2019

Two more days until we release our May issue, Hillsdale! Today we're featuring an essay by Carmel Elizabeth on stories that call for clarity and stories that call for ambiguity. Take a look, and have a great last Monday of classes!

“The riddle we can guess / We speedily despise.” —Emily Dickinson, #1222 I was lying in the backseat of the car on an early October day in 2014, waiting while my mom grabbed a few things from the g…

27/04/2019

The deadline for on-campus interviews has passed, but we're still accepting applications on a rolling basis during the summer! Email us for an application ([email protected]) if you're interested in joining the staff next year.

26/04/2019

The early deadline for applications is today at 5:00 p.m.! Send your applications to [email protected], and have a great weekend.

The first deadline for staff applications is coming up! Send your résumé and cover letter to [email protected] by this Friday at 5:00 p.m. for an on-campus interview.
Photo: Cait Weighner

24/04/2019

"I want to remember the loneliness so that I may someday understand the ways that it changes and ages hearts." —Ryan Pfeiffer '21

Today we're featuring an essay from our March issue on the fruit of loneliness. Take a break from drafting papers to read Ryan's reflections on what he learned from Fitzgerald and his own experiences in isolation.

In Act IV of Coriolanus, Shakespeare uses a seemingly inconsequential simile about a solitary dragon leaving its swamp. It is in this simile that Shakespeare coined the adverb “lonely.” Similarly, …

23/04/2019

The first deadline for staff applications is coming up! Send your résumé and cover letter to [email protected] by this Friday at 5:00 p.m. for an on-campus interview.
Photo: Cait Weighner

22/04/2019

"There was no way I could pay them back, and it would be an insult to try. They delighted in giving, and mine was the privilege and the responsibility to take. So I took and I ate everything they set before me and gained probably ten delicious pounds." —Molly Kate Andrews '19

Molly Kate's essay on gratitude seemed like an appropriate selection for this season of Paschal joy. We hope you were able to enjoy some delicious feasting and celebration with your loved ones this Easter!

For fall break this year, one of my best friends invited me to come home with her to stay with her family. They were just getting ready to renovate their new farmhouse, and she wanted to see it bef…

19/04/2019

"I had grown to associate wealth with worldliness and urbanity with shallow conduct. The description residents themselves gave of their town was 'transient,' and I interpreted that to match my preconceptions. But as I slipped into a daily cadence, this changed." —Anna Timmis '19

Take a moment to enjoy an article from our October issue: Anna's essay on the summer she spent reporting for the Santa Barbara News-Press.

I stood on the confetti-covered pavement, shoulder to shoulder with strangers. Behind me, blankets and people covered a lawn sloping downward and south. Over the hillside-house roofs peaked the oce…

17/04/2019

Staff applications for the '19-'20 school year are officially open! Hillsdale students, if you've enjoyed the Forum this year and would like to be considered for a staff position, please email [email protected] for an application. We are seeking a new managing editor, several content editors, and a graphic designer. We recommend that interested candidates submit their applications by April 26th at 5 p.m. to be interviewed on campus before summer!

17/04/2019

"For the Christian, to see the other as he 'really is' is to see him as God does: loved beyond all comprehension and freely willed into being." —Cait Weighner '20

As we approach the release of our last issue of the year, we're looking back on a year's worth of essays and highlighting a few for your reading pleasure. We hope you enjoy Cait's thoughts on divine love in "Won't You Be My Neighbor?"

In that last week of clammy August malaise that inevitably precedes the start of the semester, my family and I often go to the “second-hand” theater a couple of blocks away in search of discounted …

21/03/2019

Our deadline for pitches is tomorrow! Send your essay ideas to [email protected] to be considered for our last issue of the year.

Welcome back from spring break, Hillsdale! As we approach the end of the semester (and hopefully warmer weather), we invite you to submit your pitches for our final issue of the year! Send your ideas to [email protected] by March 22nd (this Friday!) to be considered for the May issue. We can't wait to hear from you!

Photo: Emilia Heider

17/03/2019

Welcome back from spring break, Hillsdale! As we approach the end of the semester (and hopefully warmer weather), we invite you to submit your pitches for our final issue of the year! Send your ideas to [email protected] by March 22nd (this Friday!) to be considered for the May issue. We can't wait to hear from you!

Photo: Emilia Heider

01/03/2019

After a small printing delay, the March issue of THE FORUM is here, and we're pretty proud of it! Grab a copy to share with your parents this weekend.

27/02/2019

"Words have immense value in connecting us as humans, but we should be careful with them, lest we wield that power in such a way that we infringe upon the individuality of the other. In a way, humans are islands, but we aren’t meant to be entirely isolated; humans are meant to live in societies, and words function as the bridges between these islands, or persons. A careful and prudent use of our words, then, allows us to share our experiences with each other, creating an overlap between our inner lives..." —Nolan Ryan '20

We can't wait to share our next edition of THE FORUM with you. Read Nolan's full essay when our March issue releases at the end of the week!

25/02/2019

"In architecture and interior design, Westerners scrub away the imperfections left by nature and seek to free themselves from her control through technology. In literature, Westerners seek transcendence by following the tragic arc of a hero who attains some glory by nobly resisting fate. It is difficult for Westerners to imagine an aesthetic philosophy based on imperfection, on balance, on an amoral view of the dark shadows of nature and fate. Japanese aesthetics generally, in architecture, interior design, and literature, embody a reverence, rather than a rejection, of the immutably dark aspects of nature." —Brian Freimuth '20

Read Brian's full essay in our March issue of The Forum, coming to a campus near you this Friday!

24/02/2019

We're down to the last week before the March issue hits campus for Parents Weekend! Keep an eye out for previews of our upcoming issue this week, and be sure to grab a print copy when it releases this Friday.
Photo: Jon Balsbaugh

23/01/2019

Tomorrow is the last day to submit pitches for our first spring issue! Send your ideas to [email protected].

17/01/2019

Our deadline for pitches is just over a week away! Send your ideas for essays and reviews to [email protected] for a chance to be published in our upcoming issue!

Calling for submissions! Christmas break offers the perfect opportunity for quiet reflection. Send your media reviews and essay pitches (2-3 sentences) to [email protected] by January 24th to be considered for our March issue. We look forward to hearing from you!

03/01/2019

Calling for submissions! Christmas break offers the perfect opportunity for quiet reflection. Send your media reviews and essay pitches (2-3 sentences) to [email protected] by January 24th to be considered for our March issue. We look forward to hearing from you!

12/12/2018

The December issue of THE HILLSDALE FORUM is out... just in time for Reading Day! Take a break from studying or grab a copy to bring home for Christmas and share with your family. From all of us at The Forum, we wish you a very merry Christmas and a happy new year!

11/12/2018

“Is not the difference between John Knox’s prayer, ‘Give me Scotland or I die’ and today’s two-week, GoFundMe missionary voluntourism a sign of a great change? It is nearly impossible for moderns to conceive of the paradigm of our forefathers. Either the circumstances of the modern world no longer call for this same kind of action or much of the modern Church has, for the time being, lost this zeal.” — Brian Jonsson Freimuth '20

You can finish reading Brian’s essay in our December issue of The Forum, releasing on campus tomorrow!

[Photo by: Joanna Dell]

10/12/2018

“Growing up I never self-consciously experienced true dependence. Although I studied hospitality by watching my parents host guests at our home in Washington, I had ever known what it felt like to be on the receiving end of the host-guest relationship. Mine was the house people came to, mine the church they visited, and I learned how to set guests at ease and to keep their glasses full. I learned how to give, but not how to receive, the gift of hospitality. Then I graduated and came to Hillsdale.” — Molly Kate Andrews '19

To read Molly Kate’s full essay, grab your own copy of the December issue of The Hillsdale Forum when it hits campus this Wednesday!

[Photo by: Emilia Heider]

08/12/2018

Looking for a breather in the middle of exams? The December issue of The Forum will be hitting campus THIS Wednesday, just in time for your Reading Day leisure. Keep an eye out!