The Importance of Being a Nasty Woman: Samantha Bee in a Dumpster Election
I don’t know where I would be without Samantha Bee, especially in this election. Every Tuesday, I ignore all of ...
Opinion
The DSM: The World’s Most Authoritative Text
Of everything ever written, few texts have been as influential or strictly adhered to as a dogmatic, rigid, and narrowly ...
The Humanity of Bias
They say “don’t read the comments,” and for the sake of peace of mind, that’s good advice. But I read ...
The Coming Post-Election Hangover
This election has unfolded like a disastrous fraternity party: a sea of chaos and confusion, conflicts, exhaustion, and so many “mistakes ...
Cultural Appropriation and Halloween: A Marxist Critique
Up until the Halloween scandal on Yale’s campus last year, the controversy surrounding the political correctness movement and cultural appropriation manifested ...
Affect, Performance, and the Republican Party
The other day, while watching the Vice Presidential Debate, I had a revelation. It was a minor revelation, especially compared ...
The Dangers of Hitting “Shuffle”
I’ve never had particularly unique music tastes. I spent years listening to The Fray, Coldplay, Green Day, and The Script. ...
The Demise of Apple
I remember watching the keynote speech for the first iPhone, back in 2007. Steve Jobs described how Apple was going ...
“Nothing Amiss”: One Account of Wesleyan’s Title IX Process
On Monday morning, I saw the dress I am now wearing lying on my floor and became nauseated. I thought ...
Fear and Loathing in Senior Year
Homo erectus, the first hominids theorized to leave Africa, existed for nearly one and a half million years before the ...