The History Behind Recently Deceased Feminist Icons and Their Selective Activism
Dolly Parton wore her sleeves and pants flared, her jumpsuits bedazzled, and her tops cut low. She strutted in towering ...
Opinion
Warriors Made Me Political
I was nine years old when I first dove into the world of Warriors by Erin Hunter. I was sitting ...
Eli Eats: Hachi and a Vigorous Defense of American Sushi
The other week I watched “Jiro Dreams of Sushi,” David Gelb’s impressively uncritical 2011 documentary of Jiro Ono, a nonagenarian ...
The 800-Pound Gorilla Speaks: Roth ’78 on Free Speech and the Future of Academia
University President Michael Roth ’78 does not fit perfectly into one ideological bucket. He has sparred with Dartmouth College President ...
Overconsumption Has Ruined Collecting
It’s no coincidence that the decline in collecting as a hobby corresponds with the decline in the consumption of physical ...
My Last Argus Article: The Training Ground, Not the Pinnacle
“Well I stood stone-like at midnight suspended in my masquerade…” This is my 35th and final article for The Wesleyan ...
SafeWords: Sex Horoscopes
It’s hard to believe, but it’s the last issue of the semester, which means that it’s the last SafeWords article ...
The Cost of Convenience: How Ease Undermines Sustainability
The University’s obsession with convenience has embedded itself into everything we do. Take me, for example: I couldn’t think of ...
On the Correct Usage of Em Dashes
The hottest punctuation mark today is the em dash. From that of steadfast devotees, for whom it is a mark ...
Tired of Choosing Between Selling Out and Shouting? The Case for the Tempered Radical
Each day, we as students are called to abandon our generational nihilism: to show up at every protest, sign every ...