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Socialism and The American Dream: Analyzing the German Model
Walking into the nearby supermarket, Price Chopper, you may be concerned with lettuce, carrots, maybe some tomatoes, but probably not socialism. Every time you buy a bag of arugula or a bushel of apples, you are supporting an insurgent…
Is Taking Drawing I Necessary?
Here at St. Lawrence, there are many fantastic studio art classes. The classes are rigorous and usually demand upwards of six hours outside of the two and half hour blocks of class time that occur twice a week. The prerequisite for all…
Solar Panel Tariff Will Hurt United States And World
It was a spooky Halloween for sure as the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) recommended to the White House on Tuesday to impose tariffs of up to 35 percent on imports of foreign-manufactured solar panels. Tariffs are taxes placed on…
Supporting College Republicans is in the Left’s Interest
Last week, Thelmo released a statement outlining a doctrine of more political inclusion and institutional support for conservative students. I disagree with the notion that conservatives have been silenced from expressing their viewpoints.…
Politicizing Tragedy
After every mass-shooting, America likes to stick its priggish neck out and parody the ethicist, preaching against political reactions to political crimes. Their sermons are always some derivative of “Leave politics out of this and let the…
Get Guns Off The Streets and Demilitarize The Police
In the wake of any of the all too frequent mass shootings in our country, the debate over gun control wakes up. That is, it stirs the debate for approximately 48 hours before everyone gets apathetic over the power of the NRA and afraid of…
LETTER TO THE UNIVERSITY.
In my February 2017 report to the St. Lawrence University Board of Trustees, I wrote of the unease conservative students on campus had been feeling since the 2016 United States presidential election. Their unease, to an onlooker, might have…
Attack The Gender Wage Gap By Dispelling the Myths.
The statistic that women earn $0.80 to every dollar a man earns is the most repeated number of the feminist movement. It makes for great quick quips on any blog rant about inequality, or for a local coffee shop that goes viral with an…