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Campus Media Response

A Student’s Right to Listen, Challenge, and Learn

TU reader Sam Goodman of Carleton University in Ottawa recently published this piece in her school's newspaper. In it, she…

Campus Media Response: Israel’s Answer to the Iranian Threat: Consensus?

Each Israeli citizen has the right to live a life free from abductions, suicide bombers, rocket attacks, and a nuclear-armed…

Campus Media Response: Are We Learning the Right Lesson about Inequality?

[It is a] contradiction [to say] that while it’s wrong for the government to redistribute wealth from poor to rich,…

Campus Media Response: Nobody Deserves Egalitarianism

  Recently, Brian Shaud argued in Georgetown University’s The Hoya that a growing wealth gap in the United States is…

Campus Media Response: Do We Need Faith to Know Right from Wrong?

There are objective principles that constitute good living. Both faith and hedonism are opposed to reason; both disvalue the importance…

Campus Media Response: Don’t Be Content with Contentedness

Happiness neither requires conformity to social standards nor resigned contentedness, but rather a willingness to determine our own individual values…

Campus Media Response: The Iranian Threat—In Their Own Words

Iran may make claims or engage in activities which appear contrary to our view of them as rigid fundamentalists. But…

Why Financiers on Wall Street Earn Their Wealth

Most everyone agrees that if you work, you should be compensated based on your productivity, skill, and time. Financiers are…

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…

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…