The Black, White, and Grey Areas of Ethical Protest Coverage
On November 5, 2019, former Attorney General Jeff Sessions visited Northwestern University to speak to students about Trump’s agenda. Sessions’s visit drew about 150 protesters, some of whom climbed through windows or pushed through the doors of the building in an attempt to interrupt the talk. As the university’s student paper, the Daily Northwestern sent […]
Off-Campus Censorship: Freedom of Speech in the Digital Age
“Fuck school. Fuck softball. Fuck cheerleading. Fuck everything.” This is what high school freshman B. L. captioned a Snapchat after discovering that she did not make the varsity cheerleading team. In the photo, B. L. and a friend were in a convenience store sticking out their tongues and raising their middle fingers. The self-deleting Snap […]
In Response to “American Theocracy and the War on Christmas”
When those of us interested in politics look to history for support, we must be wary of reductionism. Though it may be advantageous for headlines to make eye-catching claims, history is much more nuanced. In “American Theocracy and the War on Christmas,” Alex Jarecki reduces the complex relationship of religion and politics in America to […]
The Right’s War on Higher Education
Reactionary politics have never been kind to academia. While a well-educated population is deemed a pillar of a democratic society and strong economy, authoritarian regimes in contrast have a dark history of mistreatment of students and academics. China’s cultural revolution, Mussolini’s persecutions of leftist intellectuals, and the Nazi book burnings show how order and state […]