Every American who cares about the rule of law ought to support abolishing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. This means defunding, dismantling, investigating and prosecuting ICE from top to bottom. The agency is so morally corroded that there is no appropriate remedy but to abolish it. The agency ...
Eighty years ago Wednesday, Lutheran minister Dietrich Bonhoeffer was executed by the Nazis for his dissident activities, which included helping Jews escape Germany and joining an attempt to assassinate Hitler. In a country whose church and people largely stood complicit in the actions of Hitler’s ...
When I lived on campus last summer, I had an overwhelming amount of free time on the weekends. On Friday nights, I would go to Shabbat dinners hosted by Jewish friends. We would pack into sweltering un-air-conditioned living rooms and share potluck dinners and wine. On Sunday afternoons, I would go ...
Empty Monster cans clutter the closet, sweaty t-shirts hang from the pull-up bar, a used bath towel is draped over the desk chair and the only things neatly stacked are tubs of protein powder. Welcome to the stereotypical college man’s dorm room.
One summer, my sister and I attended a community boating camp, where we came across a girl who looked eerily like Miranda Cosgrove. My sister and I joked that we had clearly stumbled into a sailing-themed Disney Channel movie, wherein we were merely a comic relief duo and the Miranda lookalike was the ...
In a rich social ecosystem like Brown, it can feel easy to replace relationships, rather than repair. Yet it is by having the difficult conversations and leaning into the discomfort of conflict resolution that strong relationships can flourish.
When I was 10 years old, my father began to grant me an allowance of $3 per week. Along with my first week’s allowance, he gave me three glass jars labeled “give,” “save” and “spend,” into which I was required to put one dollar each. My father explained that there were three basic uses ...
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