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Summer 2011

Why So Unserious?

A piece in the The New York Times reviews a recent book by Lee Siegel, Are You Serious?: How to…

Campus Media Response: Opposition to American ideals, not American hypocrisy, is the root of anti-Americanism

“Why do they hate us?” This is the longstanding question revisited by Jonathan Aylward of The Michigan Daily in his…

Kansas Conservatives: Enemies of Individual Freedom in Healthcare?

Recently, Kansas has become a center of controversy between conservatives and liberals on the topic of health care regulation. The…

A Moral Operating System: Software for Living

Damon Horowitz begins his recent TED presentation with the following question: What’s better, iPhone or Android? Nearly everyone in the…

Help! The ATMs are Stealing Our Jobs!

President Obama recently sparked controversy when he attempted to explain America's prolonged unemployment as a consequence of automated service technologies:…

Campus Media Response: Human Rights: Exclusively Human

According to Bolivian President Evo Morales' "Law of the Rights of Mother Earth," your right to life should be defended…

40 Years of Protecting Us from Ourselves

This week marks the 40th Anniversary of the "War on Drugs," first declared by President Richard Nixon, who subsequently created…

Why Obama is No Longer Cool on Campus

The Atlantic Wire carries a story about a recent poll by the National Journal showing that Obama's popularity ratings have…

Campus Media Response: Can’t Find a Job this Summer? Take Some Time to Brush up on Economics

In an aptly-titled piece in the University of Florida’s Alligator (“As orchestra plays, U.S. economy sinks”), Chris Ceresa reminds college…

Opponents of Stem Cell Research: Enemies of Human Life

Minnesota is currently in the thick of an ongoing debate surrounding embryonic stem cell research and its legislature is now…