The India Pale Ale Movement, tidal force that it is, is a pansy farce. Breweries remain effective for the end-of-week roundtable with friends, cornhole or colloquiums, where you can proffer your latest...
Outrage culture is what those complicit in the perpetuation of harmful narratives call passionate and emotional objections to the status quo. Employing it in conversations about racism at Wake Forest is...
On this episode of “While People Are Trying to Make Things Right, Republicans Do Everything They Can to Find a Way to Defend Trump,” we get to see Michael Cohen’s damning testimony on Donald Trump.
Cohen’s...
A few weeks ago, I wrote a column about my crippling addiction to Twitter. I explained how it ruled my life and warped my perception of reality. I’m really glad that I wrote that article. No, I’m...
More than 80 years after President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal created a sprawling range of public-works programs that sought to combat the Great Depression, a program no less sweeping in scope is...
Milan Kundera’s oft-quoted line from The Book of Laughter and Forgetting that “the struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting” seems especially poignant when accounting...
An engagement with art, either by its production or through its close observation, is an existential necessity for managing, internalizing and contextualizing lived experience and our perceptual interiority.
That...
When members of the Silent Generation (born 1925-1945) were roughly college-age, the telephone, the television and even the microwave were becoming technological staples of daily life. Just as we pull...
November 2020 can’t come fast enough. I’m over the theatrics and our country being run by an administration that so blatantly abuses power. I’m calling Donald Trump’s emergency declaration for...
To say that developments in Virginia politics have been dizzying and downright heartbreaking lately does not begin to describe what has happened in Richmond over the past two weeks.
When I wrote my...
iGen or Gen Z (my generation) is bad at handling conflict, and the declensions are telling: the primacy of the first-person, proliferated by Apple products, and the terminal letter of the alphabet. Our...
It apparently doesn’t go without saying that masculinity is socially constructed. Anthropologist David Gilmore defines it as “the approved way of being an adult male in a given society.” It is situated...
