The Ivy League is known for its immense academic rigor and success. The schools that comprise it, however, are strictly northern. Over the years the south has shown that it can have excellent academic...

To demarcate the periods of our lives is almost wholly a retrospective exercise, a way of presently manifesting, through language, a significant memory on the linear continuum. That is, time itself passes,...

After the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school last February, I spent hours scrolling through stories about the victims. I learned about their passions, their families and even found social...

Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), the current Democratic minority leader in the House of Representatives, is about to face her first test in her bid to be elected the next Speaker of the House as lawmakers return...

Everything about Thanksgiving excites me. Mashed potatoes? Yes, please. Pecan pie? Pass it over. Seeing all the people that mentally never left high school? I could do without. Before college began, that...

July 4, 1776 was the beginning of the rest of the world for many. And the end for others. If you don’t know what day this is, you should. This, in my opinion, is one of the top five most important events...

For Søren Kierkegaard, there is an ever-present anguish in us, a craving for individual meaning and purpose underneath both our survivalist dogmas and our more idiosyncratic disappointments. It is a deep...

Two years ago: I am sitting in the back of the bus heading back to campus from a Wake Forest basketball game. Darkness is punctuated by street lights and the Wake Mart’s lights, but I cannot doze off...

Now that the midterm elections have concluded, the Congress will enter its lame-duck session for the remainder of 2018, during which the Democratic leadership in the House of Representatives will consider...

I realize it comes across as silly and self-involved and absurdly indulgent to write about the concerns that come with my parents flying across the world to visit me in Denmark. What concerns? There should...

Most college age students of 18 years or older are perplexed with the Civil War, so for the majority, I write. However, despite my sarcasm, this is important. One of the greatest events in history is the...

One of my high school friends died in a car accident. The news came in with a sudden strike in the middle of a school week. However, instead of hearing it from any form of media, I heard it from my teacher....