Broadcast Politics, Network Politics, and Modern Campaigns
How much is our political landscape shaped by the changes of our media environment? Has packaging become more important than actual policy?
Positive Pluralism: Why Tolerance Isn’t Enough
Positive pluralism helps forge, and may be even required to forge, the relationships that constitute the basis of political cooperation.
How Journalism Can Survive AI
Journalism can survive AI—but trying to beat the machines at their own game is not how we will maintain a relevance the future.
Climate Policies in the 2024 Election—A World of Difference
The choice between Kamala and Trump’s climate policies is more than a typical policy difference—it could shape the future of our planet.
Do Scientific Truths Depend on Our Language?
Language does provide us with novel concepts—concepts which may not even exist as an objective part of reality.
The Myth of Institutional Neutrality
Institutional neutrality serves as political cover, and such cover inevitably reinforces their inertia toward making meaningful changes.
Virtual Reality and The Death of Materialism
We should be wary of our technological world leaving us more alienated than the material world we sought to escape.
Minimalism: The Consumption of Anti-Consumption
Minimalism, the movement which once aspired to combat the excessive cycle of overconsumption, has now become commodified and industrialized.
Democrats Have Abandoned Civility: Good Riddance
Civility is overrated, and there is too much on the line to risk politeness.
The Dangerous Facade of Simulating Nature
Though they are a marvel of extraordinary technology, computer simulations of the natural world can sever our connection with our environment.
Child’s Play: AI, Gaming, and the Future of Warfare
AI has achieved remarkable milestones within gaming, prompting the question of how it will influence the future of warfare.
On Truth
The populace is ill-equipped at rigorously filtering through the wildfire of information produced by the digital age.
Big Tech’s Faustian Bargain
The bombardment of new and accessible information has created a new standard of incomprehensible intellectual turnover—what was relevant yesterday will be irrelevant tomorrow.
The Necessity of Student Journalism
Student journalism, much like professional journalism, is essential not only to inform the community but also to hold those in power accountable for their actions.
Turning Back Our Carbon Clock
An important piece of the puzzle has mostly been left out of climate action to date — removing carbon dioxide directly from the biosphere.
The Legitimacy Crisis of the Ivy League
Meritocracy, in its simultaneous immeasurability and ubiquity, has also come to justify social inequalities that ought to be attributed to structural issues.
Updating Our Diversity Paradigm
Over the past few decades, academic institutions have strived to create more diverse student bodies. While certainly a commendable aim, many of these efforts have not been motivated not by genuine concern for social progress, but rather by the need to improve optics in our increasingly dogmatic political climate. To achieve diversity and the social prestige that comes along with it, institutions of higher education have devalued the principles of merit, racial equality, and freedom of expression. In its ideal form, diversity enriches life experiences and can drive the advancement of technology. But current initiatives to increase diversity are unsustainable and dangerous when they cast aside common sets of principles that are essential for creating healthy multicultural communities.
The Liberal Arts Need More STEM
The key is that we should not be funneling undergraduates into more “practical” or “employable” majors, but rather equipping all students with an education that’s practical and employable.
The Cynicism of Clarence Thomas
But I don’t think he changed so much as he settled, accepting a cynical worldview and placing no stock in the possibility of a radically different American society.
Reaching the Bounds of Psychology
While psychology is still a budding seed, it isn’t hard to imagine it firmly planting itself in the garden of hard sciences. As with most sciences before it, psychology can and must transition from the realm of conjecture to the realm of calculation.
Generation Junkie
Sure, our parents may have smoked hash in public parks and spent the eighties enjoying the various pleasures of the early days of Wall Street, but for Gen Z, carnality is synonymous with culture.
Laura Helen Marks, Porn Studies in Academia
Porn, as a whole, is never ‘just fucking’. Even something that appears to be ‘just fucking’, it’s still fucking with the camera placed just so, your bodies placed just so, and it’s choreographed! Even if you wanna make it seem completely authentic, that also is a choice.
On Meaning and Purpose
There is a warm undercurrent of comfort in knowing that your very essence is beyond natural material and that the thing that breathed that essence into you, whatever it is, carries an inaccessible depth of knowledge—a purview that life is always acting toward your well-being, no matter how bad it may appear.
The Toxic Culture of Resume-Building
In the 2010s, panic swept across elite private high schools in the US. These institutions, designed to usher bourgeois coastal city offspring into the most elite colleges possible, were experiencing unprecedented rates of suicide within their student bodies.
Has Gen Z Killed Intimacy?
Hook-up culture, a consequence of a movement dedicated to sexual liberation, has morphed into one of the few remaining patriarchal structures where women ultimately compromise their desires for the benefit of men.
Calling Out Corporate Activism
Instead of crafting the most appealing advertisements, they now create the most “woke” campaigns possible.
Free Speech Lessons from Nikita Khrushchev
It has become apparent that colleges have failed to cultivate the flourishing atmosphere of open discourse that they claim to promote.
The Mid-Budget Film’s Quiet Fall
As banal blockbusters increase their stranglehold on the film industry, it leaves the moviegoing public gasping for air.
The Ethical Case for Vegetarianism
We tend to overlook suffering that we don’t have to engage with on a regular basis, regardless of how bad it is.
Life in Ukraine
When you only hear about a group of people through the news, our brains have the dangerous habit of turning them into abstractions.
