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Supporting College Republicans is in the Left’s Interest
Last week, Thelmo released a statement outlining a doctrine of more political inclusion and institutional support for conservative students. I disagree with the notion that conservatives have been silenced from expressing their viewpoints.…
Politicizing Tragedy
After every mass-shooting, America likes to stick its priggish neck out and parody the ethicist, preaching against political reactions to political crimes. Their sermons are always some derivative of “Leave politics out of this and let the…
Get Guns Off The Streets and Demilitarize The Police
In the wake of any of the all too frequent mass shootings in our country, the debate over gun control wakes up. That is, it stirs the debate for approximately 48 hours before everyone gets apathetic over the power of the NRA and afraid of…
LETTER TO THE UNIVERSITY.
In my February 2017 report to the St. Lawrence University Board of Trustees, I wrote of the unease conservative students on campus had been feeling since the 2016 United States presidential election. Their unease, to an onlooker, might have…
Attack The Gender Wage Gap By Dispelling the Myths.
The statistic that women earn $0.80 to every dollar a man earns is the most repeated number of the feminist movement. It makes for great quick quips on any blog rant about inequality, or for a local coffee shop that goes viral with an…
The Excelsior Scholarship: To Impotence and Beyond.
When the ever-affable-governor, Andrew Cuomo, announced that New York State (NYS) was rolling out a bill designed to make tuition free for all college students, my mind raced with visions of brave families packing their bags and sending…
Dear Dub: Me Too But Now What?
Yeah, me too. And her too. And my mother and grandmothers too. And my best friend too. And the girl who sits next to me in class too. And one in three women worldwide too. And you too? You’re not alone.
The deluge of “me too” on social…
The Excelsior Scholarship: To Impotence and Beyond.
When the ever-affable-governor, Andrew Cuomo, announced that NYS was rolling out a bill designed to make tuition free for all college students, my mind raced with visions of brave families packing their bags and sending their child off to…