I don’t want to die in a war. Mind you, I don’t strictly oppose war. I have immense respect for soldiers of many countries and creeds, and I could certainly imagine a scenario in which I would be willing to die in a war. To be more precise, I don’t…
Over winter break I went on a beautiful vacation to see my mom’s side of the family. Coming home, however, was not so idyllic. Snow and covid compounded, resulting in many flight delays and cancellations causing my mom and I to end up needing to spend three days and two…
I once heard it said that if you’re a right winger you’ll understand the fundamental political axis as order vs chaos and if you’re a left winger you’ll understand it as liberation vs oppression. I question the generalizability of this claim, and nevertheless find it to be a valuable heuristics….
Written by E. D. Parish In 2020, and then updated in 2022, the Free Expression and Constructive Dialogue report (FECD report) was released discussing the state of discourse on campus. Unsurprisingly, the report found that many students, and especially many conservative students, reported self-censoring on account of the perceived hostile…
Dear Readers, The long expected and well overdue day has finally come. Chapel Hill is unmasked. The longest “two weeks” of our lives are over. Although by the time I arrived at Chapel Hill the worst of Covid-19 had already passed by, I was doubtful that the pandemic policies of…
Politics is by its very nature irrational. The absurdities we all see cannot be explained by mere ignorance or differing values. Ignorance does not explain the passion and vitriol — after all, few people are highly emotional about advanced calculus; it also doesn’t explain the persistence of beliefs in the…
