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(05/19/21 10:26pm)
Globally, governments have enacted far-reaching lockdowns in the hope that we may stop the terrible toll the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has caused. The global 3.2 million death count is but one tragic measure of our collective suffering. After everything we have endured, the last thing we want to hear is that all we have fought for and sacrificed was in vain. Still, we have an obligation to at least listen to the significant body of thought dedicated to criticizing the lockdown model. Still, while many have challenged whether our public health measures have worked at all, too little has been asked about whether the moral costs have been worth it. We have become so consumed with whether we could impose lockdowns, we have neglected to question whether we should.
(03/21/21 11:27pm)
For generations, Americans have been told that a college degree is the ticket to a better life. However, college tuition and student debt have risen considerably over the last few decades, making that goal increasingly unattainable. The Starbucks barista that has a master’s degree isn’t a lone anecdotal tale, but a terrible statistic that encompassses thousands of Americans. To help them, we must privatize public universities and cease federal student aid.
(10/16/20 8:28pm)
Cheating has recently become an important issue during the COVID-19 pandemic because of the online format many universities adopted. While the increase in cheating was expected, the draconian response some professors took in order to combat and persecute suspected cheaters was not. Reports of overreactions ranged from requiring students to scan their rooms before exams to asking unsolvable questions, seemingly to tempt students to cheat. Before privacy violations and borderline entrapment become normal, we should consider the alternative that is open book exams.
(01/17/20 5:00pm)
In the wake of the airstrike of Qasem Soleimani in early January, I am dismayed to see so many of my peers use the chickenhawk argument. According to Merriam-Webster, this term describes a person who “strongly supports or promotes warlike policies, but who has never served in the military.” People who support the airstrike are regarded as wanting another Middle Eastern war and are told to go and enlist to defend their position. Others say that politicians should volunteer their own sons and daughters before supporting a hawkish position. This concept is not new. In 2005, Christopher Hitchens, while defending the Iraq war, was shouted down by his opponent as being “ready to fight to the last drop… of other people’s blood.” It is a time-tested ad hominem attack that hinges on the belief that only the people who personally bear the consequences of war understand its true costs and are therefore the only ones qualified to decide if a foreign entanglement is worth it.