Opinion
On the Weaponization of Social Media
With the United States considering a ban of TikTok, serious questions should be asked about the ability of a government to censor social media
The Misleading Language of Race in Medicine
When medicine relies on arbitrary standards based on race alone, when it blames “comorbidities” without acknowledging the roots of these inequalities, ultimately, it plays into the same false ideas that fuel the more obvious forms of racism.
Who Owns the Moon?: Capitalism in Outer Space
To expand commercial exploitation to the Moon without serious reflection and addressing the issues we face now is not only foolish but catastrophically irresponsible.
To Teach is to Transform: A Representational Approach to Addressing Generational Inequity
The promise of social mobility that accompanies post-secondary education often innately rules out occupations with lower starting-salaries, and right now, teaching in public schools is not a profession balanced in opportunity cost.
Like Sheep to the Slaughter: How American Individualism Has Prevented an Effective COVID-19 Response
While there could have been more action from our government, Americans don’t do enough to hold the individualist mindset accountable for electing that leadership in the first place. The problem was never the government: it was the country that the government is in.
Blackness Commodified
Non-Black people looking to experience Black culture can do so without the day-to-day struggles that, for Black men and women, cannot simply be washed away with a Neutrogena makeup wipe. Struggles that, unfortunately, are as old and enduring as America itself.
The “Top Dawg” Effect: What Kendrick Lamar Tells Us About the Future of Urban Revitalization
American inner-cities are marginalized and troubled, yet deeply creative and vibrant. Kendrick Lamar and Top Dawg Entertainment have capitalized on Los Angeles’ cultural vitality and are transforming their communities in the process.
Scholastique Mukasonga and Life in Rwanda
Mukasonga makes no profound declarations about the impacts of conflict or sweeping statements about the loss of tradition or lifestyle. Rather, she shows us these phenomena through speaking to the subtle erosion of positions in carefully curated systems and how the properties of these systems begin to diminish as circumstance alters livelihoods.