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In Defense of Hunting: Cruella DeVille or Captain Planet?
Hunting the hunter. Continue »
The Devil’s Advocate Evaluates: (his own) Atheism
Last weekend I went home. As is true for most people, going home meant spending time with my parents. It just so happens that my mother is the executive director of my Jewish synogogue, so in my case going home also means attending Friday night services. And for the first time in my life, I went but did not participate. I did not say one prayer, nor did I take part in one group reading. Instead, I reflected on the nature of the words being spoken, and on my own personal belief that there is no God. Continue »
Thoreau for the 21st Century
Many of us complain that we live too fast, that our priorities must be re-evaluated, that our sense of morality and purpose has been lost. Henry David Thoreau predicted these dilemmas over 150 years ago in Walden. He accurately foresaw the spiritual crisis that now plagues American society, and his example offers hope today. Continue »
Spitzer’s Double Standard
On April 7th, 2004 New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer advocated for the arrests of 18 people associated with an alleged high-end escort service. He proclaimed, “This…organization…was nothing more than a prostitution ring, and now its owners and operators will be held accountable.” Just three years later this “tough-on-crime politician” is again dealing with allegations of prostitution rings — but this time he’s the one under investigation. Continue »
How to Procrastinate Like You Were Born 3 days Late Then Moseyed Out of Your Mother’s Womb Fresh From a Nap and Drizzled in Cheeto Dust
It has come to the attention of the administration that productivity around Tufts has been at an all-time high. It is disheartening to look around the campus and see scholars, musicians, artists, and even researchers not throwing their time away when they all have the potential to be doing, in scientific terms, diddily squat. Continue »
Older articles
[04/01/2008]Utter Hillarity: Funny in the Dull
[04/01/2008]So You Got a BA in BS? Now What?
[03/07/2008]Going Green without Spending Green
[02/29/2008]Death… by Democracy?
[02/29/2008]One Crazy Adventure Does (NOT) a Person Make
[02/15/2008]The Technological Singularity is Near
[02/15/2008]The Devil’s Advocate Evaluates Abortion
[02/15/2008]One Nation Under Tourture?
[02/08/2008]The Economy of Death
[02/08/2008]Fun Physics Facts
[02/08/2008]Read This and I’ll Like You
[02/08/2008]If Plato Went Pre-Med
[12/07/2007]Just Sleep On it
[11/30/2007]The Low-Down on Going Down-Low: Part I
[11/30/2007]Carpe Scientiam: Why Classics at Tufts is Still Important
[11/30/2007]A Public Service Announcement
[11/30/2007]Abraham and Everything Else: “A whimsical musing on the supreme origin of the existence and divinity”
[09/14/2007]Decision 2008: Why Bother?
[09/14/2007]The Tufts Identity Crisis
[04/27/2007]Where Have All the Gentlemen Gone?
[04/27/2007]Your B.A.: More Than Just Professional Development
[04/27/2007]My Bloodstained Spanish Secret
[04/27/2007]The Most Important Lost Requirement
[04/13/2007]Unraveling Entertainment News
[04/13/2007]The Fallacy of Feminism