Tag: opinions
Opinion: Let’s zoom out on social media usage
What do you do when you have nothing to do? Like many people, I often have the urge to use my phone to fill...
Opinion: Building belonging in the unknown
As I parade around the Austin Asian American Cultural Center with a bowl of fresh jian dui (sesame balls) in my crisp new qi pao (traditional...
Opinion: The fire this time: Why 2020 police reform failed
Tyre Nichols. Manuel Esteban "Tortuguita" Paez Terán. Kennan Anderson. We must chant their names like the many others who fell victim to sadistic acts of...
Letter to the Editor: On the Foreign and the Familiar
Hello there. Perhaps the most challenging part of this letter is identifying its addressee — whether it is the Editor, the Reader, or the...
Lessons Learned: How to heal yourself through helping others
While the world was on pause, the leaves outside my little brick house continued to change and the scent of snow meandered through the city....
Lessons Learned: How to talk about philosophy without getting punched
Philosophy is a notoriously pretentious subject. It evokes names like Kant and Aristotle and Kierkegaard, that belong to dead white men who probably said and did a lot of...
Opinion: Affirmative action may die, but racial diversity in higher education...
In front of the U.S. Supreme Court is currently a case known as “Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) v. Harvard,” which is revisiting the...
Opinion: Responding to Kanye’s perpetuation of antisemitism
In early October, I was scrolling through my Instagram feed and saw that Ye West (formerly known as Kanye West) made some antisemitic remarks online. Around...
Letter to the editor: Occidental underutilizes its small classes
At my high school in New York City, all of our classes were conducted in a seminar style. Because classes catered to student discussions,...
Opinion: On the African History section of bookstores
Lacking. This is the overall quality and conclusion that many African-descended and African people can come to when visiting most bookstores in the United...