Opinions

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Last week, we published an article “The Simple Morality of Punching Nazis: Counter the Extremist,” which explicitly called for violence. I almost did not allow it to be published, since we do not wish to promote violence. But I also did not…

Violence is not a conduit for free speech. In response to the emergence of domestic terror activities flooding national headlines, the left has made a subtle shift in rhetoric from “violence is wrong” to “violence is justified, but only…