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Bargaining with God

Why would I want to believe (if I do believe at all) in a God who requires blind faith and has destructive ethics, for whom we must be violent in order to show devotion?

by Tamar Willis on April 22, 2016

Define Your Terms: Responding to Joshua Leifer’s Misguided Wall Street Allegations

The breadth and depth of financial services extends far beyond the scope of the causes of the financial crisis, and to identify a sector that comprises 9 percent of the economy or even any of the companies within that sector as wholly anything is a mistake.

by Andrew Tynes, Walker Carpenter on April 17, 2016April 17, 2016

Life, Pornified

A critical look at anti-porn activism at Princeton.

by C. Liu on April 16, 2016January 20, 2020

Work Life Balance

The Yale administration’s insistence on a student income contribution is reinforcing inequality along race and classlines.” So proclaims a new campaign launched at Yale, organized by the group Students Unite Now (SUN), aiming to eliminate the student income contribution for undergrads … Read More

by Carolyn Kelly on April 16, 2016April 23, 2016

Rememory

When the sodium lamps evaporate their tired stock, I wonder if walking home at night in the rain will still be such an ageless pleasure, a simple joy to watch you stagger up cement sidewalks, ringed in a corona of … Read More

by Zach Cohen on April 16, 2016April 17, 2016

Stay Tenacious

The report’s interpretation is not at odds with the Sotomayor speech, but doesn’t fully understand it, either.

by Ben Perelmuter on April 16, 2016April 24, 2016

I Am Not the Übermensch

Why do we feel compelled to shut down anything that deviates even slightly from the social standards to which we have unwittingly chained ourselves?

by Hetty Yejae Lee on April 16, 2016April 21, 2016

Seeing Myself Clearly

This binary between “school” and “cool” is something even my own parents, haters
of dim lighting and monthly contacts prescriptions, acknowledge as well, if only implicitly.

by Lavinia Liang on April 16, 2016July 21, 2017

The Nose

I feel victorious over the Nazis. I feel ashamed.

by Alex Costin on April 16, 2016April 24, 2016

Interview with Lester, Functional Humanoid

She looked at me and turned her thingie off. And said typical. And then turned over and kept vibrating.

by Samuel Bollen on April 16, 2016October 2, 2016

Lyssna: A Review

The performance was viscerally compelling. Immersed in evolving harmonies and asymmetrical rhythms, I found myself transported to a space outside the predictable and rigid schedules of junior spring, of deadlines and word counts, into a rustic, sunlit world where patterns existed to be deconstructed and reformed.

by Kat Kulke on April 14, 2016

What Does a Good Girl Look Like

Women, more than men, feel compelled to meet superhuman standards.

by Kat Kulke on April 10, 2016April 9, 2016


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