Category: Viewpoints

It is often claimed that everyone has a right to their own opinion, such that one has the natural and inalienable freedom to hold whatever beliefs they will without fear of persecution. This is typically explained by the alleged fact that opinions cannot be false — they are subjective. I shall argue that this is…

Prior to May 2015, I can guarantee that the majority of America had no idea of who Bernie Sanders was. Senator Sanders now has around 2.46 million followers from both of his Twitter accounts (@BernieSanders & @SenSanders) combined. Ohio’s primary is on March 15 and the deadline to register is by Feb.16. I highly recommend…

If you ever wondered why we pay taxes, and what happens when young voters do not turn out to have their voices heard, then you can look no further than Kansas. My native state has recently fallen on hard budgetary times due to our lovely Governor Sam Brownback. Governor Brownback, a hard-charging Reaganomics-loving Republican, assumed…

Hannah Jackson If we held Western civilization accountable for half of its stolen cultural archetypes, the world would likely end before we ever got to the second half. So ingrained is cultural appropriation in our modern world that we can’t see its effects on our psyche unless we’re looking for them. Kylie Jenner, Miley Cyrus…

Sunny Mitra As the Alcohol Task Force met for the first time on Monday, a great portion of the student body waited in anticipation for the first big announcement from this group. What the current campus climate needs from the Task Force is not an addition to the Scot’s Key, but rather a change in…

Maddy Baker You may have/probably heard about a boy named Ahmed Mohamed, who lives in Texas. Ahmed built a homemade clock for class, and was arrested because it looked like a bomb. But no, it didn’t look like a bomb because it was shaped like a bomb. It didn’t look like a bomb because it…