The Complicated Ethics of Thrift Shopping
There’s a certain aesthetic to walking down the side of the highway wearing washed-out jeans from the ’90s and a ...
Opinion
What’s Love Got to Do With It: In Defense of Friendship
If you’ve ever watched a movie, read a book, seen a television show, or done literally anything ever, then I’m ...
Who Benefits in the Post-Truth Era?
“Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies,” writes Jean-Paul Sartre in “Anti-Semite and Jew.” ...
Breaking the Bubble: Extending Ideology Outside the Ivory Tower
Content Warning: racist and sexist slurs The last time I was on /pol/ (a popular alt-right forum on 4chan), I ...
The Aesthetics of Power: Trump, the Media, and American Brutality
In his 1981 essay, “The Precession of Simulacra,” French sociologist and philosopher Jean Baudrillard famously argued that the mainstream American ...
The Extrajudicial Nature of the Court of Public Opinion
As social media becomes a bigger and bigger part of our society, people are increasingly able to share their opinions ...
Finding My Sister
My sister, Ellie, is my best friend. That’s something I’ve never questioned. Right now, maybe you’re picturing a typical sister ...
The Subtle Classism of the Transfer Process
An inability to afford five round-trip flights and having to subsist off of salami and cheese sandwiches for a few ...
The Naked Truth of Data Breaches
On Wednesday night, the campus was alerted that students’ emails and passwords may have been breached by hackers. The next ...
Warning! Cynical Politicking and the Gilets Jaunes Movement
In “The Ethics of Ambiguity,” Simone de Beauvoir writes, “What distinguishes the tyrant from the man of good will is ...