Dissecting Disaster: Conflicted Feelings on Media Coverage of Hurricane Harvey
News broadcasts are some of the few memories I have from my and my family’s evacuation of Southeastern Louisiana for ...
Opinion
A Farewell to The Argus
My true passion for The Argus was formed in a cauldron of controversy. While I was among the scores of ...
NY Times’ Bret Stephens: Masturbatory First Columns Attempt to Derail Climate Change Debate
The first three columns of The New York Times’ new Opinion columnist, Bret Stephens, have attempted to roil the traditional ...
Free the Books
The University recently asserted its ownership over the wealth of books in Olin by placing a swipe-access lock on the ...
On the Importance of Scrutiny in Moving Forward with Opinion
This is the final issue of my tenure as an Opinion Editor, and during such a volatile, strange, scary, and ...
White Allyship in the Face of Jordan Edwards: Avoiding Perpetuation and Complacency
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 ...