Only four percent “of US adults say the political system is working extremely or very well.” Sixty-five percent say we “always or often feel exhausted when thinking about politics.” Yet, we keep doubling down, thinking that more attention on politics will somehow fix what ails society. In 2020, candidates spent over $14 billion seeking the presidency. This was
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READ MOREMatt Walsh has firmly established himself as a professional troll. I don’t use the term in a derogatory way. In many cases, his stunts bring needed attention to cultural and political issues, and he has a talent for reminding us just how absurd (and dangerous) certain contemporary trends really are. Writing faux LGBT children’s books,
READ MOREAnti-war activists used to be at home on the left. In the mid-2000s, Democrats were the first to oppose the War on Terror. During the 2004 Democrat primary, for example, the last rival to John Kerry was Dennis Kucinich, a staunch critic of the Iraq War who would later propose the establishment of the “Department
READ MOREIn 2018, 1,200 Yale undergraduates crowded into one of the University’s largest venues, Battell Chapel, ready to listen and learn. But the students sitting in the glow of the chapel’s stained-glass windows, who comprised almost a quarter of Yale’s undergraduate population, were not there for a church service. They were there for the most popular
READ MOREThe same thing that makes for a beautiful piece of music makes for a healthy society: harmony. In a beautiful musical composition (such as the alt-folk album Appaloosa Bones that I’m listening to as I write), the notes of each chord harmonize with one another, as do the notes of the melody, and a unifying
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