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Thousands of students expected to return to Liberty University campus amid coronavirus pandemic
Mar 25, 2020 | Education, Original Source Salon.com
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Mar 29, 2016 | Education, Gay Rights and Other LGBTQIA Issues, Gender and Sexism, mic, Race and Racism
Published: The Good Men Project (March 29, 2016) Let’s talk, for a moment, about the Wall of Hate. It may not look like much, but it was enough to grab my attention as I walked home from the Fairchild-Martindale Library at Lehigh University. Various students were standing in front of it with markers, scribbling words that I could not as of yet discern, and several more were present to hand out...
Campus protests can go viral in no time–so can the backlash
Nov 27, 2015 | Autobiographical, Civil Liberties, Education, Internet Culture, Millennials
Published: The Daily Dot (November 27, 2015) It’s hard to follow the recent flurry of college protests without being reminded of President Harry S. Truman, who famously said that “there is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.” As the media continues to fete attention on high-profile student demonstrations at Yale, Wesleyan, Princeton, and the University of Missouri, one...
Campus PCness and the Price of Free Speech
Nov 11, 2015 | Civil Liberties, Education, Internet Culture, mic
Published: The Huffington Post (November 11, 2015), The Good Men Project (November 10, 2015) This is an editorial for my fellow liberals. Because progressive ideas on political and social issues often challenge conventional assumptions, liberalism as an ideology depends on freedom of speech for survival. It isn't enough that the state be prohibited from suppressing dissenting political opinions;...
When College Liberalism Is Wrong
Sep 24, 2015 | Civil Liberties, Education, mic, Race and Racism
Published: The Good Men Project (September 24, 2015) Once upon a time, I was a Republican. It was only a few years after the September 11th terrorist attacks and, despite my reservations about the war in Iraq, I believed that maintaining a strong national security apparatus was America’s foremost priority. Because I bought the Bush administration’s line of bull that Democrats were isolationist...
Hillary Clinton, unpaid internships, and the culture of exploiting young workers
Jul 9, 2015 | Class Issues, Education, Elections, Elections - Presidential (2016), mic, Millennials
Published: Daily Dot (July 9, 2015) Although Hillary Clinton has proposed a series of programs for reducing youth unemployment, she has also come under fire on the Internet for staffing her presidential campaign with unpaid interns. In response, Clinton announced on Tuesday that she was hiring 20 paid staffers in Iowa (the first state to hold a presidential primary or caucus next year). But, as...
7 times Bernie Sanders broke the Internet
May 19, 2015 | Class Issues, Climate Change and Other Environmental Issues, Economic Policy, Education, Elections, Elections - Presidential (2016), Original Source Salon.com, Plutocracy
5 ways to fix America’s crippling student debt problem
Apr 28, 2015 | Class Issues, Economic Policy, Education, mic
Published: Daily Dot (April 28, 2015) Back in 2011, Occupy Wall Street swept America due in large part to its members’ savvy use of social media (one professor of journalism even referred to the movement as a “hashtag revolt”). While no catchy Twitter slogan has yet been created for the student loan reform movement, the Internet is warming up to the cause in a similar fashion. “The federal...
The University of Oklahoma shouldn’t have shut down its racist frat
Mar 16, 2015 | Civil Liberties, Education, Race and Racism
Published: Daily Dot (March 16, 2015) co-author Tillie Adelson To understand why the University of Oklahoma was wrong to expel the students responsible for singing a racist chant (as well as disband the Sigma Alpha Epsilon chapter on their campus), it is first important to understand the legal arguments in favor and against the college’s decision, and only then can you fully realize why both...