Earlier this week, my roommates and I gathered around the dining table, as we occasionally manage to do, sharing a few moments of comfort and some sense of a safe haven. One of my roommates brought up a discussion she had in class about how we move forward after this tumultuous election, which, I can […]
Author: Maya Santhanam, Staff Writer
Waking Up From The American Dream
Defined by James Truslow Adams, the American Dream is of a “land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for every man, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement.” The underlying principle of the Dream is that all Americans, regardless of race, creed, color, or religion, can achieve success in […]
Faustian Bargains and Nuclear Progress
Ethical evaluations of progress simplify into a cyclical process which emerged long before the discipline of ethics formally surfaced; a progressive development is made, the said development challenges any number of long-standing values, and schools of thought relevant to the situation are applied to evaluate contradictory opinions in the conflict. Using Kant’s categorical imperatives, Gilligan’s […]
Whose Streets? Ours or Theirs?
Amidst a global reckoning around police-community relations, one thing is becoming clear: we can’t excuse white supremacy as a thing of the past or an inevitable part of our present any longer. The roots of tension in police-community relations are self-reinforcing. Police forces are failing to understand our racial history and current racial environment, while […]
Is Age Just A Number For Minority Youth?
Citizen. Immigrant. Rich. Poor. Veteran. Able-bodied. Democrat. Republican. Our rights, privileges, and immunities are continuously determined by the different labels we’re granted by the institutions that govern us. Labels are guarded by black and white lines, with many set indicators placing each of us in these rigid categories. In our legal system, many of our […]
Do I Date Like My Great-Great-Grandma?
In a world where partnership is just a tap away, are we truly revolutionizing how we search for love, or are we merely adapting the same evolutionary game to new rules? Competition is widely regarded as the drive to emerge victorious in the face of scarcity — whether the scarce resource is a coveted promotion […]