Political and moral opinions should be taken seriously. They're opinions about the sorts of things that demand passionate belief and deserve fervent defense. If you're not committed to your political beliefs,...
I suspect that each of us carries some best thing around inside, some thing that we want to develop not for glory or riches but because it would mean ripening to fruit the finest thing that we feel capable...
Hola, clase. Today, I'm writing about intercultural learning capacities, or, in plainer terms, culture shock.
During our week-long traveling seminar, the Trinity in Spain program was accompanied by...
Measuring diversity is easy. Take a population, carve it up in terms of the categories you're interested in "” what'll it be today, ethnicity? Gender? Make sure the percentages total to 100, and now...
This weekend, the news cycle was once again dominated by President Donald Trump. At both a rally in support of Alabama Senate candidate Luther Strange and on Twitter, Trump called for NFL players who protested...
Much has been written about the current crisis of communication in America, the supposed difficulty of broaching difficult topics and, once those topics have been broached, the difficulty of maintaining...
Odds are good that when you hear the word "˜car,' the image that pops into your mind today has an internal combustion motor that burns gasoline. This hasn't always been the case, though.
In the early...
We wish that anyone who believes in the virtue of democracy could see the value of a journalist's work as clear as day.
Too often, however, reporters are painted as a prying, invasive presence. Popular...
The German Fulbright scholars who have been with us over the last few weeks had many questions about the American culture. I learned to re-examine things that I had thought of as normal, and to appreciate...
Right now, the U.S. is in a crucial moment in history. In a few years, people will look back at 2017 and point to the actions being taken with regard to resolving an issue as old as the nation itself:...
Living in a house off campus for senior year feels like a training run for independent living. Dishes have to be cleaned, floors have to be swept, furniture has to be purchased and trash and recycling...
I really love braids and dreads. I wanted to let my hair dread, but I discovered that this was actually something quite controversial. After further investigation, I realized I must have been living under...
