Opinions

On Tuesday night, I went to a workshop entitled “Whiteness and the Complexity of Anti-racist Allyship,” led by St. Lawrence’s own Dr. Meghan Carpenter. We talked about ways in which everyone participates in racism through systems and…

Your phone listens to you. Yes, this is a conspiracy theory, but just hear me out. I love my phone more than most; I can’t even survive without it for, like, a day. But, in the pursuit of excellence, we should probably all stop using our…

Nike’s new advertisement has people jumping on the “women can do it all” train left and right. I am here to ask: why? Sure, it is great to see a surge in empowering advertisements with a feminist message, from the much-contested Gillette ad…

There is this ideology that Martin Luther King Jr. represents the desire of peace between white and black people, and automatically, the lesson of Malcolm X comes after. This lesson teaches young people that X’s ideology was violent towards…

Today I sat in Dana and slowly swallowed my sad food. Look, we all complain about the food here. It’s a sacred SLU pastime. But I’m not here to blame my bout with the stomach flu on Dana against the word of an ER doctor. But can someone…

President Trump proclaimed to his viewers at a press conference outside the White House a few months ago that, due to the #MeToo movement, it is a very scary time to be a man right now. Pushback like this against the #MeToo movement has…

The trial of Joaquín Guzmán is feeding into our animalistic tendency to seek novelty and excitement. Economics would support this position, given that the high demand for trial information requires news outlets to supply these articles for…

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a report that predicts an increase in forest fires, food shortages and the destruction of coral reefs by 2040—21 years, a small span of time. However, if the human population acts…