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Lindsey Van and plenty of other girls and women are out there taking risks on a daily basis, necessary or otherwise. What we ought to be asking ourselves is why we as a society continually fail to reward them for doing...
...college students, issues of identity, origins, and the future are, admittedly, sensitive subjects. More importantly, however, they are pressing ones that ought to inspire open discourse about people’s backgrounds and their aspirations...
...generation—spoken word artist Joshua Bennett and scholar Cameron Leader-Picone, a fellow at Harvard’s W.E.B. Du Bois Institute. In defining Black Art, Baraka spoke of his experiences growing up in a segregated society and took an explicitly political stance on what Black Art ought to do: “We create art because we want to change the world... we want to liberate the world, liberate the people...
...such, the question to ask is not whether Greece ought to receive economic support, but rather from where it should be coming. Interpreting EU treaties in such a way that allows rich member-countries to bail out poorer ones is a step toward integrated eurozone fiscal policy as it necessitates the coercion of the poorer countries’ fiscal policymakers. Although austere German inflation-hawks might disagree, any interventionist French politician-turned-economist would gladly proclaim that fiscal policy is inherently, and rightly, subject to political forces. Indeed, in that country, unlike in Germany and the U.S., elected politicians dictate...
...Middle East—the dangerous dehumanizing of “the other side”—which, rather then leading us toward a long-term solution and lasting peace, further deepens the conflict. As Jews, mindful of our long history of persecution and discrimination, we ought to be particularly vigilant when the value of the lives of another group is called into question...