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Simone Weil and AI: The lesson before the answer 

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

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 

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

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...

Book bans are a fight over the future

Discussions of childhood are a battleground in American politics. Every fight over a child is a fight over the future. In legislative debates,...

The proposed OMB Rule could harm UCI

On May 29, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) proposed a rule that would rewrite the existing Uniform Guidance under CFR Part...

The perilous implications of statewide elections

We all saw the hustle and bustle occurring around Gateway Study Center and Langson Library around the beginning of June. I was hoping...

The American Dream in 2026

Historian James Truslow Adams coined the term “American Dream” during the Great Depression to describe the possibility of a better life available to...

Feed-ing into propaganda: The effects of memetic warfare

The face of propaganda shifts as times change, and governments have always manipulated the media to achieve their own goals. During World War...

A test for America’s 250th birthday

The United States officially turned 250 years old on July 4, 2026. For many, this is a milestone worth celebrating. Others may consider...

Should standardized testing come back to UC admissions?

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the University of California unanimously agreed to abolish the testing requirement, as high school students could no longer safely...

AB 1821 would limit student journalists

Proposed amendments to California Assembly Bill 1821 will be re-referred to the California Senate Judiciary Committee on June 30. In its current form,...

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