Opinion
CONTENT WARNING: Police Violence; Anti-Black Racism. On April 29, fifteen-year-old Jordan Edwards was shot and killed in Balch Springs, Texas, ...
De-Normalizing Trump: Protections of Jeff Sessions are Symptomatic of Facism
The first 100 days of Trump’s America were, by most estimates, unproductive if not entirely uneventful. He may ultimately score ...
Fictions? R.J. Julia and the Administration Attempt to Obfuscate Worker Concerns
In a closed-door faculty meeting this week, University President Michael Roth reportedly said of R.J. Julia’s hiring practices that “stories ...
Unmasked: The Power of Showing Your Face
Masks and anonymity are tools. They create an illusion; behind a smokescreen, there can be a large, intimidating group whose ...
The Cage of Body Dysmorphia
Content Warning: Body Dysmorphia, Self-Hate, Self-Harm. People don’t fully understand how horrible it is to hate your own body, how ...
From the Administration’s Pitch of a Moral Code to the Trend of Moral Turpitude
Universities all across America sell fictitious worlds in order to get students to apply and attend. My perception of Wesleyan ...
Spider-Man: Hero of the Proletariat and Friendly Neighborhood Arch-Nemesis of Militarism
After five movies, two franchises, one Tobey Maguire, and one Andrew Garfield, Spider-Man is finally coming back to the Marvel ...
Male Privilege in the Classroom, From an All-Girls Grad
I vividly remember how excited I was to start classes at Wesleyan this past fall. After a long, lazy summer, ...
Resuscitate the Health Care Debate
Now that the dust has settled, it’d be redundant for me to hop aboard the think piece band wagon, skewering ...
In Times of War, the Media Transforms From Critic to Cheerleader
The United States is said to have the most powerful military in the world. The nation’s combat assets are intimidating, ...
