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Heidegger and the time we lose trying to save

Jacqueline Lee - August 12, 2026

The private draft of self: Derrida and the Notes app

ColumnsJacqueline Lee - August 11, 2026

The Notes app has become a private room for feelings people may never say aloud. Apple even builds privacy into the app through...

The tragedy of treating your life like a draft

ColumnsJacqueline Lee - August 4, 2026

College has become a four-year exercise in saying later. Later, after graduation. Later, after the internship. Later, after the first stable job, the...

Political interference threatens UC research

EditorialsEditor In Chief - August 3, 2026

During the week of July 13, each defendant agency that terminated over a thousand research grants at the University of California (UC) submitted...

The need for more youth-centric online spaces

OpinionOpinion Writer - July 30, 2026

Poptropica. Club Penguin. Webkinz. These were the online spaces that defined childhood in the early 21st century. These digital spaces were designed for...

Prize and prejudice: Colonialism in the World Cup

ColumnsRuby Goodwin - July 19, 2026

Over the past month, teams from around the globe have tested their mettle in exciting World Cup matches. Unfortunately, some fans have one...

Simone Weil and AI: The lesson before the answer

ColumnsJacqueline Lee - July 18, 2026

Simone Weil, a 20th-century French philosopher, treated attention as a moral discipline that teaches people to encounter the world with humility. With the...

Why Camus lingers

ColumnsJacqueline Lee - July 17, 2026

Albert Camus will often enter students’ lives incidentally through a classroom text or a casual recommendation. Camus speaks to a stage of life when...

Performed depth: The cost of trying to be interesting

ColumnsJacqueline Lee - July 16, 2026

In 2026, when everyone wants to be interesting, far fewer people are actually interested in something. That difference reveals a deeper problem in contemporary...

Movies aren’t billion dollar lottery tickets

A&EOpinion Writer - July 15, 2026

Hollywood has a multi-billion dollar problem: budget control. Over the past few years, there has been an influx of disappointing entertainment that is upsetting...