Last Friday, President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance engaged in an act once thought unconscionable towards an ally of the United States. In front of the American media, the two took turns rhetorically flogging Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The two sounded less like the leaders of the free world and more like Newman, the mailman […]
It is difficult for me to scroll for more than five minutes on TikTok without encountering a young South Asian influencer talking about how glad she is that she “decolonized her mind” or “reconnected with her ancient culture” and embraced her South Asian identity after adolescence. Most of these micro-influencers, at least from what I […]
As an international student, I have no right to meddle with U.S. politics. The American electorate exercised their democratic rights in the November 2024 election, when Mr. Donald Trump was duly elected as president. Through a constitutional process, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, along with Mr. Trump’s other cabinet picks, was subsequently confirmed by the […]
A manipulation tactic, a label to maintain power, a means to avoid commitment, a fundamentally unbalanced hook-up, a friends-with-benefits-type-of-thing, unrequited love, the girl I see on Fridays, the boy I’m keeping a secret, the lineman I was “just hanging out with” last semester. These circumstances evoke a familiarly vague term: “situationship.” Its colloquial usage helps us […]
Last month in The Argus, I criticized President Donald Trump’s executive order intended to reduce antisemitism on campuses and revoke the visas of international students who advocate for US-designated foreign terrorist groups like Hamas and Hezbollah. I argued that if there is to be a place where a multitude of ideas—including those that are offensive […]
For the past nine months or so, I have been working on imagining and creating a dance show. That makes it sound like a dream—I’m making the show this summer, and it reimagines what a transitional Odissi Indian classical dance recital could look like through an anti-genre, progressive, queer lens. “Wow, you’re such a Wesleyan […]
Since I set out to write this article commemorating three years since Russia attacked my country with all the troops and weapons available, I have changed my mind on what latest news deserves to be part of the introduction paragraph several times. I followed the fight of the first responders and paramedics in Kherson to […]
Did aliens build the pyramids? It’s an innocent enough question, right? A playful jest at the analogs of history? Something to casually consider over dinner with your friends. Sadly, there’s an implicit harm inherent to these narratives of ancient societies because it casts them as incapable of their feats of engineering, science, and technology. Some of these […]
If you’re an international student at an American college or university who plans to participate in a political protest this year, reconsider. This precaution is not to monger fear, or to promote silence, or even to reinforce bystanderism. As a fellow international studying at an American university with a politically active student body, I believe […]
College and university presidents around the country are ready to channel their inner Nancy Pelosi to resist President Donald Trump in his second term. Wesleyan President Michael Roth ’78 is no exception. Following Trump’s electoral victory, Roth vowed to defend academic freedom from potential threats posed by the Trump administration, asserted “not [to] be neutral” about […]