Death to Cool Girl Beauty
About half of you probably read the words “Cool Girl” in the title and nodded in immediate recognition. The other ...
Opinion
How “This is Us” Will Save America
I live off of cheesy TV. It has become a fact of my emotionally volatile collegiate existence. I can only ...
Locking Women Out of Leadership Roles
An idea straight out of “When Harry Met Sally”—that men and women can’t just be friends—has been institutionalized at the ...
Why We Must Change the Rhetoric of Climate Change
Like other forms of rhetoric, verbal efforts to promote environmental sustainability are rooted in human nature. In a society that ...
How Liberal Media Misunderstands Student Protests
Protests at Middlebury in which students shouted down eugenicist Charles Murray are emblematic of a coddled, leftist millennial political movement. ...
The Beauty is the Beast: Emma Watson’s White Feminism
Yes. Emma Watson is a white feminist. Because she is white and she is a feminist. Her priorities often center ...
Addressing Our Lack of Diversity
The Argus Opinion section has a diversity problem. It is neither new nor unique to our section, but as editors ...
Panic! at the Discourse: Not Everything is “Debatable”
A certain type of thinking seems benign but is, in fact, dangerous. Having shed the yoke of this perspective, and observed how ...
An Ode to my Conservative Uncle
Alone last Sunday night, I was writing my live coverage of the Oscars—mostly out of preparation to cover live national ...
What Kenneth Lonergan Is Missing (It’s Not an Oscar)
On Friday, The Argus published an opinion article by my colleague, Assistant Opinion Editor Connor Aberle ’19, in which he ...