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Margaret Atwood Was Right! Women's Rights in a Post Dobbs America
In Maragret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale it reads, “Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub you'd be boiled to...
Kamryn Brandt
Oct 23, 2022


How Racists Won: A Brief History of the Southern Strategy
One cannot begin to understand the modern Republican party without first learning of Richard Nixon. He was the thirty-seventh President...
Emma Behrens
Sep 25, 2022


Answering America’s Stereotypes for Asian Americans
In myriad ways, Chemistry, by Weike Wang, is a Frankenstein of racial stereotypes. The protagonist narrator is a Chinese-American PhD...
Perry Lu
Apr 25, 2022


Poetry and Patriotism: Walt Whitman’s “Election Day, November, 1884”
Walt Whitman was an American literary powerhouse. His unabashed patriotism and his signature brand of free verse place him chiefly in...
Emma Behrens
Apr 24, 2022

"Middlemarch" on Political Reform
I am under no illusion that you will read Middlemarch. Published in 1872, the 850-page tome is a stunning meditation on the human...
Emma Behrens
Mar 27, 2022


Why You Should Read Between the World and Me - Now
“I would not have you descend into your own dream. I would have you be a conscious citizen of this terrible and beautiful world” -...
Ella Gammel
Mar 6, 2022

In a Word
**Preface from the author: This article deals with slurs and their effects on minorities. As a white person, I cannot and do not claim to...
Ella Gammel
Feb 19, 2022


What is Critical Race Theory?
A decades-old, once-obscure piece of legal jargon has come to the forefront of modern American rhetoric. Critical Race Theory (CRT) has...
Emma Behrens
Feb 17, 2022
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