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Credentialitis

(10/19/15 5:21am)

An idyllic campus unfolds on the pages of the glossy Duke booklet my high school self is thumbing through. Pictures of beaming, diverse groups of students adorn the pages, interspersed with text: "innovation," "experience," "collaboration," "adventure," "opportunity" and other banal buzzwords of the university-industrial complex. I reach the back page and peruse a list of Duke's dizzying array of majors, minors and certificates. I circle more than a dozen that catch my eye.

https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2015/10/credentialitis

And the chocolate factory: what a 50-year-old children's book can teach our generation

(06/03/15 11:51am)

"The Hunger Games" brilliantly depicts the ruthless competition, abiding distrust of politics and intrusive, document-everything media environment that define our age. "Harry Potter" has informed our generation's morals, promoting tolerance and inclusion. But an older book, written long before we were born, best captures the shaping of our generation.

https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2015/06/and-chocolate-factory-what-50-year-old-childrens-book-can-teach-our-generation

Genocide denial is alive and well

(01/22/15 10:18am)

This Saturday, a prominent Armenian Genocide denier will deliver a lecture on campus. This event stands at odds with Duke’s leadership on human rights issues, especially the legacy of Raphael Lemkin, a Jewish lawyer who fled his native Poland in 1939, started teaching international law at Duke in 1941, and forever changed his field by coining the term “genocide.”

https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2015/01/genocide-denial-alive-and-well