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 ...
Opinion
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 ...
It’s Time To Rethink The Constitution
Thomas Jefferson is quoted as having said, “Every constitution, then, and every law, naturally [should expire] at the end of nineteen ...
“Paradise Lost” and My Journey Out of Progressivism
Before coming to Wesleyan, I didn’t really know what my political beliefs were. I knew I was a Democrat on ...
Trump in One-Inch Heels
Hillary Clinton eviscerated Donald Trump in their first presidential debate together. Clinton brought facts, temperament, and zingers. In truth, she ...
To Be or Not to Be an American
If you spend just 10 minutes watching the news on NBC or scrolling through headlines on CNN.com, it’s difficult not to ...