Category / 2021 / 36.1 Rot & Rebirth
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Our Home, Our Home
By Harry Campbell, Social Media Editor Artwork by Ethan Loderstedt, Staff Artist The mushrooms grow in the wake of man They march to the city, hand in hand With stench of bark and blood of land To search for a place to call home Ugly and bloated and covered in mud, the man in the… -
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The Rebirth of Nostalgia Culture
By Kate DickmanArtwork by Mingyi Suo, Staff Artist Clearly, we are going through a crisis. At this point, we have been in this pandemic for nearly two years. Nobody could have imagined what would happen to our society in these two years. Maybe more importantly, however, nobody could have imagined that we would still be… -
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The Maori of a Galaxy Far, Far Away
By Jason LiuArtwork by Eric Kim, Design Lead You're probably familiar with the more flagrant forms of indigenous representation in entertainment and popular culture - for example, earlier this month, the Washington Redskins finally rebranded as the Commanders after 87 years of playing under that racialized name in the NFL. Many readers could tease out… -
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Mayor Wu’s Victory: A Chance for Rebirth
By Nikhil Datta On November 18, 2021, Michelle Wu was sworn in as Mayor of Boston. Since the 1930s, Boston has had a string of Irish American and Italian American male mayors, but Wu has finally broken this trend. Having grown up in Chicago and from a Taiwanese family, Wu attended Harvard University where she… -
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Rotting Debates and Rotting Democracy
By Robert BurchArtwork by Daniel Moroze After the disastrous showdowns between Trump and Biden in their 2020 contest for the presidency, the last thing people want to do is sit through another presidential debate. As it turns out, we might not get the chance to. Presidential debates could become a thing of the past due… -
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Facebook’s Failed Pivot
By Neil Chopra On October 28, 2021, the company formerly known as Facebook announced a monumental rebrand, changing its name to Meta and focusing on the development of what their CEO Mark Zuckerberg termed the "metaverse," a far-off virtual reality where people will be able to "teleport instantly as a hologram to be at the… -
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Imagining Our Destruction
By Julian McCallArtwork by Lea Despotis Today, it's easy to view nuclear war as a lesson of ancient 20th century history or a backdrop for apocalyptic novels. The nearly 80 years of nuclear peace since the attacks on Japan can pacify us into believing nuclear war is impossible. However, the lack of past nuclear war…
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