The expansion of technology and social media has entirely changed the way society functions. The change has impacted our interactions with society in a manner of ways.
At some point, every city goes dark. You just do not notice it. The hubbub of commuters, students and people from all walks of life navigating busy streets and the bright billboards emblazoned with dynamic, animated ads light up the city well enough to render day and night obsolete.
The death of publications came unknowingly. The reign of print media was, as Thomas Hobbes put it best, nasty, brutish and short. Journalism as a founding principle of the United States may very well be a dead natural right.
At long last. After several days of classes, homework and hanging out with friends, it was finally time. I had been waiting for the past few days for this moment. I sat in my room, turned the lights off and turned on the Xbox.
In recent days, the tensions between the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran have grown exponentially. This round of trouble began when — according to the U.S. Department of State — Iran attacked Saudi Arabia’s oil production. The U.S. has responded by sending additional troops to the region.
Whether you are a Democrat, Republican, Independent or affiliated with another party, being politically aware is essential, especially in the current political climate.
Some people might view the city I grew up in as a ghetto. I just see it as a pretty urban area with a diverse group of inhabitants.
Arguably a household name, the "broken windows" theory was originally published in The Atlantic by James Wilson and George Kelling in 1982. In the mid-1970s, New Jersey started an initiative, providing money to departments to remove police officers from their patrol car, instead promoting walking beats. This initiative was met with criticism from both police chiefs and police officers. Police chiefs argued that “it reduced the mobility of the police, who thus had difficulty responding to calls for service, and it weakened headquarters control over police officers,” highlighting that car patrols allowed for near-constant monitoring of police actions.
It is the place of the privileged to be apathetic in times of crisis. Jonathan Franzen plays this role perfectly. In his Sept. 8 piece for The New Yorker, "What if We Stopped Pretending," he argued that our climate has reached a point of no return and there is no reason to keep fighting.
In Vancouver, Canada, there exists a building where anyone can walk in, inject heroin with a clean needle and walk out, unbothered by the medical staff on hand in case of emergency. Vancouver’s Insite Supervised Injection Site was the first supervised injection site in North America.
Jefferson Sharpnack, an Ohio primary school student, had to already overcome the difficulties of being the new kid at school, when earlier this month, cafeteria staff had confronted him in front of all his schoolmates and took away his cheesy breadsticks. It was his birthday.
The idea of loss has become a central theme in how global warming is presented: species lost, habitats lost, communities lost and lives lost. Although it is true that these disappearances are irreversible and deeply alarming, for me, the framing of loss presents an interesting kind of contradiction.
What is contained in a message? The question is nothing new. Academic superstar Marshall McLuhan’s assertion that “the medium is the message” back in the 1960s was the talk of the town in academia for a long time, and it goes without saying that entire areas of study, and entire careers, are focused around specific ways of communicating ideas in certain contexts.
The United States rests right now on a significant moral fault line. Looking at news today, it would seem that a rise of violence on the Left has gripped the national consciousness. Pundits are devoting more and more political capital to the dissection of Antifa, a nascent coalition of Leftist groups that seeks to stand as natural opposition to any and all fascist movements. The issues have escalated to federal discussions on designating Antifa as a domestic terrorist group.
Many evils drag themselves across the ends of the earth. Are those evils relative? How might we decide what the pinnacle of evil is? People often hold the Holocaust as a pinnacle of mass tragedy and evil. Perhaps this is because people need to compare tragedies to understand the magnitude of certain events.
During the week of July 15, one of the most revolutionary scientific breakthroughs would have occurred. The aptly-named Thirty Meter Telescope was scheduled to be constructed atop the Mauna Kea, a dormant volcano whose peak soars at approximately 14,000 feet.
In the wake of the 2016 election and the subsequent three years of American politics, many have turned a jealous eye toward more polished countries such as Canada, France or Britain. In recent months, the Canadian government has been rocked with scandal, the streets of Paris were paralyzed with the so-called “yellow vest” protest and now finally our closest ally, Britain, has been trapped by the gordian knot of Brexit.
The full actualization of an individual’s liberty is not found at the equilibrium of the market, but rather it is in the stomach of the no longer hungry, the mind of the no longer uneducated, the worker no longer dependent and the human no longer subjugated.
When Lori Laughlin became the face of a college admissions scandal in March, America felt some sense of justice. She had bribed USC recruiters $500,000 to admit her daughters into their school, outwardly committing the crime that most wealthy parents avoid by simply donating buildings and sports stadiums to their children’s institutions.
We sit idle and dormant, accepting the reality of life at Rutgers as beyond our influence. But, discontent grows with increasing exploitation. The first week of the semester has begun, syllabi have been circulated and tuition costs and student debt have increased.