On Ghostbusters and the Way We See Women in Media
Three days after the new “Ghostbusters” opened, I was sitting in the theater, chowing down on popcorn in anticipation. When ...
Opinion
Talking ‘Bout My Religion
Before coming to Wesleyan, I had never been asked about what my beliefs were. I attended a Jewish day school ...
The Third Party Problem
In the presidential election of 2000, Green Party Nominee Ralph Nader ran against Al Gore and George Bush with a ...
The Promise of Intellectual Diversity
Attributing “safe spaces” to intellectual censorship is like attributing the American civil war to states rights. It’s propaganda. Michelle Alexander, ...
Why the Trump Problem Won’t Go Away
Folks, there are two empirical reasons why America will not be done with the problem of Donald Trump after Election ...
The Course You Can’t Take: The Wisdom of Wesleyan
The class of 2020 arrived at the University last week. The significant connotation their class year holds, I hope, is not ...
Dissecting the University of Chicago’s Infamous Letter
Another day, another controversy concerning a college campus. This time, the debate and rage is surrounding a letter sent to the ...
The Weary Wonders of the Late Gene Wilder
I’m not a very visual person, and there are few faces that I can recall when I close my eyes, ...
The View from the So-Called Dying Newspaper
I’ve never felt particularly comfortable in my own era. Not in a “Midnight in Paris” Belle Époque, nostalgia-for-an-era-that-never-existed kind of ...
A Coachable Moment: Bringing Transparency to Campus Sexual Misconduct
The classic phrase of coaches from Little League dads to Bill Belichick is “We have a target on our back.” ...