Art should function to induce some form of self-interrogation. It should focus on the unknown and the unknowable, the uncertain and the liminal, and by exploring these spaces, force viewers to consider...

Recently, someone told one of my best friends that they were surprised we were so close. After a reportedly awkward silence, my friend asked why and received the response: “Oh, because Olivia is so political!”  When...

According to Article 2, Section 4 of the United States Constitution, “The President, Vice President and all Civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction...

Democrats completed Virginia’s partisan shift from red to purple to true blue on Tuesday night, winning majorities in both chambers of the General Assembly and consolidating power across the commonwealth...

Sitting in an Airbnb, looking out over the cobblestone streets of Rome, I experienced a sense of overwhelming perplexity at how such a magnificent power can fall so hard and so fast. Driving through the...

What are these things I write? What are the various cultural flash-points, aesthetic philosophies and slight, introspective discoveries put down in these pages? Am I a critic, an artist, a recycler? Am...

Every fiscal quarter, we look to the federal Bureau of Economic Analysis for the latest data on the total income and output of the United States. The country’s headline indicator of economic conditions...

Last week I wrote about what literature knows, about the things fine literature can teach us through form and style, aesthetic excellence and splendor. The knowledge transferred to us can seem ineffable...

When I entered college, I was warned about the threats of alcohol, drug use and lack of time management skills. I had no idea that entering college I had to also be prepared to be a woman in a somewhat...

With a 600% increase within the last three years, veganism just got trendy. Gone are the days when vegans were sandal-wearing-weed-smoking hippies. Now, vegans are students, dieticians and environmentalists....

Within the liberal-to-left political intelligentsia there’s a debate: Are Senators Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts actually the same? Currently, the two leading progressives...

On Oct. 19, in an article entitled "When the Student Newspaper is the Only Daily Paper in Town," The New York Times reported on a serious responsibility that many college newspapers across the country...