Charlie Sprague
I love to debate, but I hate it when people take arguments about their politics personally. I love to travel for free. It's one of the best things I've gotten from my CMC education. Sunday is often the most frustrating day of my week (I'm a 49ers fan).
Brookhiser Begets Boredom at the Ath
Disclaimer: I am a liberal. That being said, Richard Brookhiser’s speech at the Athenaeum on Tuesday was terrible.
The Case for Friday and Saturday Snack
The end of Sunday snack is a tragedy that I am still mourning. Snack is a beloved institution at CMC and we are lucky to have it. To improve this excellent tradition,...
Fat Americans, Heavy Farm Subsidies, and Big Medical Bills
Michael Pollan, a man who I normally find repetitive, has written an interesting article in the New York Times exploring the connections between America’s exploding...
Markets, Chance, and Moral Desert
The global intellectual climate is resolutely against free market economics at the moment in the wake of the worst economic recession since the Great Depression. ...
Rationing Health Care
The distinguished utilitarian philosopher Peter Singer has written a bold and courageous piece in the New York Times entitled “Why We Must Ration Health Care.” ...
Obama’s Troubling Civil Liberties Record
The Obama administration wisely made a rhetorical shift when it replaced the phrase “War on Terror” with “overseas contingency operations”. Not only does...
New Priorities for Combatting Global Warming?
The green movement seems to be finally well entrenched in the U.S. political system. For CMC’s Environmental Crusaders and like-minded people such as myself...
The Economic Argument for Euthanasia
America has serious health care problems, and as Paul Krugman makes clear in a recent column, serious cost control in the health care industry needs to be a top...
The Darwinian Left?
With more free time on my hands, I’ve been reading an excellent book by the linguist Steven Pinker entitled The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature....
Frary Boycott and Liberal Tactics
Yesterday, I tried to go to Frary for Taco Tuesday. I was very hungry and looking forward to the final Taco Tuesday of the year. I arrived at the entrance to Frary...
Recent
- Carl Peaslee on Summer Stories Series: "The form is fixed now. It is at the bottom of the post...."
- Kelsey Brown on Letters to Freshmen: The High School Sweetheart: "I believe what she meant was that if you are consumed by your relation..."
- missed the point on Letters to Freshmen: The High School Sweetheart: "I think my name says it..."
- in a relationship on Letters to Freshmen: The High School Sweetheart: "why can't someone feel satisfied with their relationship and be happy ..."
- Jillian on Pimp My Campus: "oooh, new walkway! so excited to see it when I get back!!..."