Author / Aidan Smyth
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The Architecture of Fear
By Aidan Smyth, Staff Writer In 1964, Oscar Newman arrived at Washington University in St. Louis following a brief stint at the University of Montreal. Until 1968, he worked at Washington University as an Associate Professor of Architecture. Newman left Wash U four years before his most influential work, Defensible Space, was published in 1972,… -
Reimagining ‘Hard Work’ in St. Louis
Reimagining 'Hard Work' in St. Louis By Aidan Smyth We're working in St. Louis, but not all that hard," Joe Holleman of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch wrote on February 22 in an article entitled "St. Louis in lower half of 'hardest-working' cities." Holleman's article was in response to personal finance company WalletHub publishing their annual… -
Criminal Justice on the St. Louis Mayoral Ballot
Criminal Justice on the St. Louis Mayoral Ballot By Aidan Smyth One month after the deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC, shook the nation to its core, St. Louisans awoke on February 6 to another uprising taking place within their own city. Unlike the Capitol insurrection, however, not only was the… -
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A New “America First” Foreign Policy
“America first” is a phrase often invoked by politicians when they describe their foreign policy ideology, although it’s not always clear what the label qualitatively means. A politician could use it to refer to noninterventionist policies as much as he or she could use it to refer to carpet bombing a third-world country to oblivion;…
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