Perhaps some of today’s great thinkers write not with ink and quills, but with Instagram create mode and comment sections on X. Memes are becoming culturally and linguistically important unto themselves,...
On July fifteenth, we received an email from the University of Minnesota’s Office of Information Technology with the subject line “Introducing Google Gemini: Your AI Partner,” announcing that the...
The freedom to express one’s own political views, a hallmark of American civil society, is rapidly becoming under threat. Just within the past few months, state legislators and their spouses were...
As a girl who was subjected to the public humiliation ritual that is a middle school dress code violation, I was curious to hear from my University of Minnesota peers if they had felt the burden of an...
“The Summer I Turned Pretty” series finale featured a scene of Belly and Conrad kissing in the back of an Uber before sleeping together. A post on X, formerly known as Twitter, went viral, dubbing...
While golf may have originated in Scotland, it’s become emblematic of American elitism and excess. We degrade the environment in our aspiration toward luxury in a way that’s derivative of European...
President Donald Trump and many of his supporters have made no attempt to hide their contempt for universities and academics.Higher education institutions were in the president’s crosshairs from...
Mississippi State Auditor Shad White took to social media in September 2023 to challenge the idea of taxpayer funding for what he referred to as “useless degrees” in “garbage fields.” The degrees...
On July 4, Kerr County experienced at least 10 inches of rainfall in the span of a few hours, causing flash flooding of the Guadalupe River.Located in the low-lying areas near the river was Camp Mystic,...
A shrill, megaphone-enhanced voice urged, or rather, demanded that college students must reject hedonism and be holier, gathering a crowd that grew larger and louder. At the epicenter of these whispers,...
