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Campus Media Response: Choose High Ground, Not Middle Ground

File sharing remains a confusing and controversial issue on college campuses. As the practice becomes increasingly common, many college students…

Campus Media Response: In Celebration of Inequality

In another hard-hitting piece in MIT’s The Tech, Keith Yost responds to the charge, much discussed of late in connection…

Campus Media Response: Traders, not Traitors

Writing for The Harvard Crimson, Ms. Sandra Korn points to an interesting phenomenon. A large proportion of Harvard’s recent graduates…

From “Yes We Can!” to “Why Bother?”

Rescuing Idealism from Today’s Political Cynics Barack Obama energized an entire generation of young people in 2008 with his declaration,…

“Green” Policies Poison Innovation

How government “encouragement” undermines technological development In recent years, “green energy” has become a major hot-button issue. Advocates argue that…

Campus Media Response: Wisconsin Protestors: Fighting for the Privilege to Count Themselves as the “Public”

Newly-elected Wisconsin governor Scott Walker, buoyed by Republican majorities in both houses of the state legislature, has proposed a dramatic…

Sorry About the Cold, It’s for the Planet

Humans go without heat in the quest for energy efficiency As China has rapidly industrialized in the last few decades,…

Campus Media Response: Beware of Democratic Tyranny in Mideast Revolutions

In a sudden groundswell of popular anger directed against Arab dictatorships, a popular uprising that began in Tunisia has now…

Campus Media Response: WikiLeaks is no Champion of Free Speech

Writing for Rutgers’ Daily Targum, Cody Gorman comes to a conclusion about the WikiLeaks controversy that is starkly different from…

Campus Media Response: Stop “Engaging” North Korea

In the last several months we have seen North Korea sink a South Korean naval vessel and shell the island…