For the class of 2016, the penultimate week of classes in our final year at Duke is concluding. Amidst the typical Duke buzz and added senior-year pressures, we are called to consider who we have become and the role that Duke has played in that process.
Our time is marked by heated cultural debates over same-sex marriage and transgender rights, abortion and assisted suicide.
On Oct. 22, 1978, a striking, middle-aged Polish man named Karol Wojtyla looked out into the jubilant crowd in St.
Throughout the year, this column has repeatedly articulated an anthropology—a conception of the human person—that respects our human dignity and outlines our ultimate destiny.
In most on-campus conversations concerning morality today, “consent” is the sole barometer. If, for example, two people agree to an act, no matter what the act is, it is deemed permissible, and if they do not agree, then the act is impermissible.
Valentine’s Day is just around the corner, which means this weekend will be packed with red and pink, hearts and roses, dates and formals.
Politicians talk about it. Social scientists analyze it. Dean Gerald Wilson has a course about it.
It’s the week after Thanksgiving, the second day of December and the first week of Advent, which means, by all standards, the Christmas season has begun.
As the fall semester winds down, Thanksgiving provides a welcome respite. The break allows us to catch up with friends and family, enjoy a great meal and bask in the nostalgia of old times at home. But Thanksgiving Day is—or at least was—meant to be more.
Duke is a competitive environment where success is measured in tangible results and where high ambitions and finite opportunities produce rivalry.
