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The English Major and the Policy Speech: An Encounter
The morning of the Colin Powell lecture, I stood in line outside of Richardson Auditorium with my friend Beth. Beth takes Arabic. Last summer, she worked for a senator in Washington. She just applied to Woody Woo. She knows her Public and International Affairs. I, on the other hand, am going to be an English…
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Under Lock and Keystone
I am much more comfortable sitting in my room writing about issues than I am screaming pithy rhymes in front of John Kerry’s house. And yet this past March 2nd, I found myself doing exactly that. I had finally been stirred to get off Microsoft Word and head to DC because so far as I…
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The Women of Mahra
These women—both remarkably free and subjugated—tell a story of a history in flux.
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Jürgen Habermas Is Dead
Jürgen Habermas, born June 19, 1929, in a wood-frame house near the Vorort of Düsseldorf, passed away last Tuesday at the age of 78.
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Putin’s Opinion
On September 11, 2013, The New York Times published an op-ed by Vladimir Putin arguing against unilateral American military intervention in Syria without the blessing of the United Nations Security Council.
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Is the Juice Worth the Squeeze?
JuicyCampus, an anonymous forum devoted to gossip and rumor, has taken off in recent weeks on college campuses across the nation, and represents what is perhaps the final stage of the digitization of student identity. Where before individuals controlled the level of disclosure contained in and the accuracy (or inaccuracy) of their online façades, now…
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How to Become Political
Realize the President has done something that makes you angry. Very angry. Read what a lot of other angry people have written, mostly from websites and blogs. Quickly formulate your own voice and opinions.
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“Fronteriza”
“Some families even hold their hands up to the chicken wire to touch each other’s fingertips.”
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The Second Coming of…Life
The enlargement of a snapshot does not simply render more precise what in any case was visible, though unclear: it reveals entirely new structural formations of the subject. – Walter Benjamin Art matters. Whether new schools of painting or filmmaking, or the invention of new media itself, both static and moving images change the way…
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The Burning Bush: Global Warming in America
The Pentagon challenging the Bush Administration’s stance on global warming – sounds like something out of the Twilight Zone, doesn\\\\\\\’t it? But it’s true; last week, a report on global warming commissioned by a high-level Pentagon official was leaked to a British newspaper. The report argues that global warming “should be elevated beyond a scientific…
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The New Garden Theatre
Once a small-town movie house that navigated the local market with bumbling charm, the Garden Theatre has grown into an exhibit of Old Princeton nostalgia under its new management. This is all well and good for Princeton’s polished and intellectual reputation, but I’ll miss the old Garden’s cozy modesty.