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We need to move towards a higher education market that’s more strongly rooted in market principles, rather than in utopian faith in the capabilities of the state, that has time and time again failed to achieve its desired goals.
I knew, even at ten years old, that I had to be seen as “reasonable” to be believed.
If “logic and reason” are used to justify the concentration camps at the border, the deaths of children, and the tearing apart of families, what value do they have?
Being nurturing is overrated, and forgiveness is overrated sometimes too.
In recent years, the conversation around climate change has progressed substantially. At first, climate denial was the primary justification for those who resisted action. Then, the focus moved to questioning the extent to which humans are the cause. As the Global Climate Strike has made clear, the crisis of climate change demands action.
Posing kids—many of whom who have a simplified understanding of the stakes of their protest—next to the imminent end of the world made the climate strikes last weekend grotesque.
Gemini (May 21-June 20): Vondy. 1. Order your soy iced matcha. 2. Say “so good to see you, let’s get a meal sometime!!” approximately 12-14 times.
Punishment is no longer about a safer society or closure for the victim but an internal, selfish desire to imagine violence against others.
For most current undergraduates, and even many graduate students, American invasion and imperialism in the Middle East has been a fact of life.
Does a living group have the right to exclude others from using “their door?” Is there any such thing as “their door” and “our door?” Is there some unwritten rule that you can’t cut through another dormitory?
Often, it is hard to conceptualize the absence of something, such as the absence of racism towards white people.
“Ladies, always heat your syrup.”
I have to think twice, three times about the things I do and how I do them. I have to be a little more vigilant, a little more observant. Ready to come change at a moment’s notice so I do not put myself in a troubling situation.
“These findings are remarkable,” the principal investigator of the study wrote in a Facebook message. “They show that students have always been somewhat unreasonable.”
When I am criticized, whether in a peer writing session or in a conversation with friends, I know that I tend to justify my actions rather than admit wrongdoing.
It is high time that Christians take a strong response on violent Christianism and white supremacy in America. A strong response would emphatically state why these violent ideals do not align with the faith.
Putting names, personalities, and lives to theories that are often presented as lifeless graphs and equations can prove to encourage typically uninterested students to pick up economics.
Only then can we bridge the disconnect between those who make policy and those whom the policy affects.
Given the violent contestations over land and economic power endemic to the post-Civil War United States, Hamer’s efforts were nothing short of radical.
It may be easier to address our trivial concerns than these underlying phenomena, but let’s face it—we know where the real problems are. We’re just really good at ignoring them.