Culture

China’s Recycling Ban: Surprisingly Helpful for the Environment 0
- Culture
- July 25, 2019
Off the coast of California floats a Texas-sized island made out of garbage. It’s comprised almost entirely of humanity’s plastic waste. Where did this garbage mass in the middle of the Pacific Ocean came from? Plastic dumping. Plastic dumping is the practice of simply throwing away waste into rivers or lakes which eventually lead out into the
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Three Things Studying Foreign Languages Taught Me About English 0
- Culture
- July 25, 2019
“Whoever does not know a foreign language knows nothing of his own.” After studying Latin and German, I understand exactly what this quote from Goethe means. Growing up as a native English speaker, I had little idea of how the language worked. Since I began studying foreign languages, I have learned to appreciate my mother
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Is College Really Getting Easier?1
- Culture
- July 25, 2019
Have you ever seen those videos of kids learning they made it into the college of their dreams? A lot of ecstatic jumping and hollering is involved, which brings a smile to even the grumpiest of faces. Nevertheless, I can’t help but feel a twinge of unease for these students. Will they waste four years
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What Hollywood’s Golden Age Offers Today’s Cultural Meltdown 0
- Culture
- July 25, 2019
There is no human nature because there is no God to have a conception of it … man is nothing else but that which he makes of himself. ~ John Paul Sartre We are in a fierce life and death cultural struggle over the meaning of human nature and reality in the cosmos. Our postmodern culture
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Fighting for the Right to Repair Our Stuff 0
- Culture
- July 25, 2019
It’s hard to overemphasize how new repair restrictions are historically. For most of human history, tools were both produced and maintained locally. Blacksmiths, for instance, furnished items but also maintained them. Moreover, fashions changed slowly, and people made things to be durable, often repairing and preserving them for a lifetime and even longer. As the
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The Chinese Communist Party and Their Brave New World 0
- Culture
- July 24, 2019
“Graham Allison (China expert and Harvard professor) knows of a Shanghai deputy mayor who says he looks forward to the day when every upper-middle class family in Shanghai has an American house-boy.” – Aaron Sarin Every once in a great while an online article will reach out from the screen of my laptop, grab me
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