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Welcome to The Undercurrent

Spring 2018

Perfection vs. Productivity

I was recently talking to a teacher friend of mine, who was stressing before his first day with a new…

You Can Live in a More Vibrant and Just America: A Review of “RooseveltCare” by Don Watkins

The slice taken out of my very first paycheck for “SSA” really stung. I didn’t know what “SSA” was, but…

Set Yourself Apart

Set yourself apart. We’ve entered an interesting epoch in our history. We live in a time where there is an…

The Secret to Sticking with Things

Success and happiness require goals. And achieving goals requires a consistent routine. Specifically, a routine of action and productivity. The…

Pride & Productivity

I’m a student, which means (almost by definition) that I don’t have everything in my life figured out yet. Should…

Frederick Douglass, Self Made Man: An Interview with Timothy Sandefur

Timothy Sandefur is Vice President for Litigation at the Goldwater Institute and author of the new book: Frederick Douglass: Self-Made…

The Credibility Cartel: How Accreditation Leaves Students in the Dark

Students are increasingly concerned about high costs and decreasing quality in higher education. But a major cause of those problems,…

Five Life Lessons from The Last Jedi

Did anyone else stay until the very end of the “reel” at Star Wars: The Last Jedi. I did. Not…

Sandi Brents’s Story: Dealing with Religion and Family as an Objectivist

Sandi Brents began the summer of 1978 in Houston with great anticipation. She and her children were joining her husband…

Two Visions of the West

The following is a letter to the editor from Mohamed Ali, a student of Physics at the University of Rochester. …