Tag / intellectual
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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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The Anti-Intellectualism of the Wash U Bubble
BY OLA ABIOSE College admissions season is in full swing, and few things are more surreal than nearing the end of college life and looking upon those eagerly waiting to begin. So, in an overwhelming bout of nostalgia, I decided to sneakily join a campus tour on my way to class, just to take one…
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Knowledge for Knowledge's Sake
In Orientalism, Edward Said lays the groundwork for his theoretical views of how the West has come to dominate and control the global perception of the East. In his own words, “Orientalism can be discussed and analyzed as the corporate institution for dealing with the Orient—by making statements about it, authorizing views of it, describing…
