Opinion
American Division Transcends the 2020 Election
Through all the happiness around Biden’s electoral win, Americans have to realize Trump’s presidency reveals a deeper division among Americans that Biden simply won’t be able to fix.
Interested in Understanding Iran? Watch AppleTV’s “Tehran”
To understand the existential issues facing Iran, you could do worse than to catch the new AppleTV show “Tehran.”
TMI?: Amazon’s Journey Through the World of Big Data
Nowhere in this story does Amazon enhance consumer welfare; it neither offers a better product to consumers nor a better service to other merchants. The company takes the data it gets from the small businesses it hosts and weaponizes that data against them.
#EndSARS and #BLM: Exploring Police Brutality’s Colonial Legacy
When viewed together, these campaigns raise questions about the role of policing in societies, permanently scarred by the horrors of their own past.
On the Most Disrespected Person in America
In 1962, human rights activist Malcolm X expressed the plight of being a Black woman as that of the most disrespected, unprotected, and neglected American. 58 years later, the same sentiments unfortunately remain all too familiar.
A Catch-22
In today’s political climate, when allegiance to party trumps allegiance to oath, the long-term effect of increasing the number of justices to the Supreme Court is foreseeable: a political tit-for-tat will, inevitably, ensue.
“War Music”: Adaptation and Other Responses to Homer
With the fervor of its political and theological themes, the irrepressible energy of War Music helps the modern reader understand Homer’s epic not as a corpse to be autopsied under the cold lights of the seminar room, but a national mythos suitable for the church, the (movie) theater, the bar, and the Rose Garden, all at once.
Unanswered Questions: In Claudia Rankine’s “Just Us”, a Call for Conversation
Our laughter gave voice to the things that words could not, another kind of “two-step,” perhaps, acknowledging the wrongs that cannot be righted without succumbing to them.