Tag / Sam
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How the Other Half Learns
Okay, I confess. I check up on Breitbart once in a while. I occasionally visit Drudge Report, too. And if you don’t already, I think you should as well. If I haven’t lost you already, I can explain. This is not some sort of Millian exercise in broadening my horizons to let the best ideas…
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A Late-Afternoon Chat with Vox’s Ezra Klein
Interview by Grace Portelance and Sam Klein | Photo by Zeke Saucedo WUPR invited Ezra Klein, editor-in-chief of Vox, to address the Wash U community last month before the debate on our campus. Before his speech in Graham Chapel, editors-in-chief Grace Portelance and Sam Klein (no relation) sat down with Mr. Klein for an interview…
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No, Everything Won’t Be OK
The election of Donald Trump to the most powerful office in the world is cataclysmic. I won’t speak to the physical insecurity that many Americans and people around the world are feeling—many women, racial and religious minorities, denizens of the Middle East and the Baltics and Central and South America. I won’t speak for environmentalists,…
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Oh, By All Means, Please, Let Gary Debate
Alex Trebek: Welcome back to our special political edition of Jeopardy. Rand, you control the board. Rand Paul: Alright Alex, I’ll take ‘Softballs’ for $400. Trebek: This critical Syrian city, a hotbed of violence, death, and destruction, is one that no international leader could possibly ignore. Gary Johnson buzzes in. Trebek: Gary. Johnson: “What is…
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The Improbable Journey of Howard Mechanic
The temperature was in the low 50s in St. Louis on the night of May 4, 1970, but the thousand-plus Washington University students marching towards the rally site were anything but chilly. Earlier that day, the Ohio National Guard shot and killed four unarmed student protesters at Kent State University. They were peacefully demonstrating against…
