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Opinion
![Response to Professor David Gelernter](http://ec2-3-20-180-125.us-east-2.compute.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/unnamed-2-e1539922156325.jpg)
Response to Professor David Gelernter
A university must educate students to contribute to the goodness of human beings in general.
![Familiar Avalos: AMLO’s Stage Fright](http://ec2-3-20-180-125.us-east-2.compute.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/amlo-ah-005.jpg_423392900-e1539657622924.jpg)
Familiar Avalos: AMLO’s Stage Fright
For the sake of both the country and his legacy, López Obrador should learn from his mistakes and leave the scapegoating in the past.
![Review: A Star is Born](http://ec2-3-20-180-125.us-east-2.compute.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/0-1-1-e1539226713313.jpg)
Review: A Star is Born
In many ways, the 2018 version seems to function as the story but of Gaga herself–only told in reverse.
![The Paradox of the Democrats? Ellison, Franken, and #MeToo](http://ec2-3-20-180-125.us-east-2.compute.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/franken-e1539047135721.jpg)
The Paradox of the Democrats? Ellison, Franken, and #MeToo
Calling for further investigation in cases which do not have sufficient evidence for the party to make a decision is the only way for Democrats to respect the nuances of different situations, and respect the victims who have brought them to the fore.
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Xi’s Consolidation of Power and the Future of China
What does the simultaneous increase in government power and growing public mistrust of government mean for China’s regime?
![An Open Letter to Louis C.K.](http://ec2-3-20-180-125.us-east-2.compute.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/unnamed-e1539044235681.jpg)
An Open Letter to Louis C.K.
I will never again call myself a C.K. fan. You haven’t taken the time to listen to your victims, so I will not take the time to listen to you.
![Review: Nina Cried Power](http://ec2-3-20-180-125.us-east-2.compute.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/nina-cried-power-e1537497799708.jpg)
Review: Nina Cried Power
“Nina Cried Power” stands simultaneously as an anthem to protest music and as a criticism of the sort of hollow activism or wokeness that dominates media today.
![Conservative Leadership on Climate Is Not Only Possible, but Viable](http://ec2-3-20-180-125.us-east-2.compute.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/shutterstock_189981317-e1536031678575.jpg)
Conservative Leadership on Climate Is Not Only Possible, but Viable
The state of our unstable climate is not an issue intrinsically political in nature, and it’s an issue too important to be neglected at the hands of our hyper-partisan politics.