INSIGHTS & IDEAS |
THE SPECTATOR |
| February 8, 2008 |
Letter to the EditorOccasionally when I'm lobbying someone my candidate -Barack Obama- someone will ask me if I'm a government major. This strikes me as a silly question. That anyone who cares about politics be cast into a certain corner of the academy is bizarre in itself. That open political discourse on this campus is rare is bizarre. Marx defined our humanity on the terms that we labour beyond what is necessary for our survival; that is, our humanity is essentially alienated if we are separated from what matters to us when we are not working. More. . . |
The State of the (Iraqi) Unionby Max Currier '10On January 28 President Bush delivered his final State of the Union address wearing—as the on-strike writers of The Daily Show wrote—"a blue tie the exact shade of America's current malaise." The past year in Iraq received little more attention than rhetorical variances of "stay the course." More. . . |
They Promised Me Snowby Scott Bixby '11There was only one commonality shared between all the colleges that I applied to last year. Between all the different time zones, different settings, and different levels of schmoozing I had to do to gain entrance, every one of the places that I applied to had snow. Snow: that beautiful, fluffy, vaguely foreign substance which a kid from the Arizona desert could only dream about… it was my destiny. I was going to snowboard every day, and make snowmen and snowwomen and transnowsexuals, and I was going to drink hot chocolate while wearing a scarf. I'd never worn a scarf before. More. . . |