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Skinny is back, but whose fault is it?

Check the comments of any recent Ariana Grande post. Between discussions about her new music and the many fans complimenting her makeup, there’s...

Democrats need to listen to their own voters

“Vote Blue no Matter Who” has become one of the Democratic Party’s defining slogans, but recent primary elections suggest that Democratic voters want...

Heidegger and the time we lose trying to save

When every hour of the day is forced to have a defined value, it can be a waste long before it ends. Martin...

The private draft of self: Derrida and the Notes app 

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

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

Prize and prejudice: Colonialism in the World Cup

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 

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 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...

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