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In Defense of the Infamous Google Memo 0
- Culture
- August 9, 2017
The internet has given us limitless possibilities when it comes to sharing different worldviews and opinions with each other. But instead of this spread of ideas making society more well-rounded and open-minded, it has caused individuals to section off into smaller echo chambers where contrary opinions are resisted or even thought of as immoral. Is
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The Surprisingly Similar Authoritarian Rhetoric of Trump and Obama 0
- Culture
- August 9, 2017
Six months have passed since Donald Trump entered the Oval Office. His administration remains deeply understaffed. His legislative agenda is stymied. He has been active in issuing executive orders, but many are toothless, others are only in the early stages of undoing Obama policies and some are tied up in the courts. So far, Trump’s leadership has
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This University President Can’t Take a Joke 0
- Education
- August 9, 2017
A university president recently addressed his campus community about an incident that had shaken his Wisconsin school. “The last few days have been painful ones for many members of our community, as they have also been for me,” wrote Lawrence University’s Mark Burstein. “The event and its aftermath have left many students wondering whether the University cares
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How Sensitivity Killed Common Sense 0
- Culture
- August 8, 2017
If you were to name one quality which has come to be highly sought after and demanded in today’s world, what would it be? For my money, I would say that sensitivity fits the bill. As such, a white person who chooses to wear hoop earrings or style his hair in dreadlocks is guilty of
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This is What Happpens When You Introduce 4-Year-Olds to an Old People’s Home 0
- Education
- August 8, 2017
Lying on the floor pretending to roar like a lion can do wonders for an elderly man’s well-being. That’s not a scientific fact, but it was one of the surprising and memorable moments we observed while making a television program which introduced a group of very young people with residents of a retirement village. The
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What Trump Could Learn about Flattery from Reading Plutarch 0
- History
- August 8, 2017
Nero may have fiddled while Rome burned, but it was the flattery of his courtiers that convinced the emperor he could get away with it. In his essay, “How to Tell a Flatterer from a Friend,” the late Roman historian Plutarch gestures at Nero, speculating that if the emperor had known to silence his flatterers,
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