Author / Jon Niewijk
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Private but Viral
A few years ago, #KillAllMen made its divisive rounds on social media. This phrase was controversial for all the reasons you might imagine. One point of conflict was identity-based: those outraged by it complained that substituting almost any other identity group for “men” would be deemed abhorrent by the very people using it in their…
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Equality, Education, And The Race Of Life
In a recent viral clip, a man using aggressively charismatic youth-speak instructs a group of high schoolers to line up in a grass field for a race, where the winner gets a $100 bill. It’s made clear that this race also represents the race of life: the winners end up healthy, rich, and happy; the…
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Trades and Tweets
It is likely that anyone who has consumed any form of news in the last several months has heard about the U.S.’s trade war with China. It is equally likely that that news contained some mention of how irrational, ineffectual, and harmful this trade policy is. Trump’s tweets on the issue have not exactly inspired…
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Consuming a Balanced Plate of Information
Doctors, parents, and many others tell us from an early age to eat a balanced diet because our bodies need many different nutrients to function. Similarly, we need a balanced diet of information if we want to engage in healthy and informed discourse. This isn’t another article about the dangers of alternative facts; it’s about…
