Archive for June 2021
Let’s not conflate white supremacy with white people
I never thought I’d hear a U.S. president explicitly call out white supremacy in an inauguration address. For President Joe Biden to follow it up a week later with a slate of executive orders aimed at pursuing a racial equity agenda offers an encouraging start to the much more difficult project of healing the divisions…
Read MoreMental health is not a product of one’s volition
[Editor’s note: Although this article focuses specifically on Princeton University, the issues raised have universal relevance.] It is a pretty safe rule of thumb to assume that no one wants to get sick. You don’t get diagnosed with, say, the flu, and then get treated under the pretext that your illness is your fault. That would be…
Read More“Live, Laugh, Love”… Let’s Not
During my freshman year at Stuyvesant, getting report cards back was like a game—people traded papers, compared grades, and calculated their GPAs. It was a bundle of excitement the first time we got back our progress reports with number grades. People nosily asked how you did, and if you refused to answer, you were then…
Read MoreIll-Conceived Identities: Social media trends are harmful to teen identity development
The existential question, “Who am I?” that teenagers are faced with as they transition from childhood to adulthood is an idea that Indie coming-of-age movies and books have centered on to gain massive audiences. All of the most popular teen movies like Perks of Being a Wallflower and Ladybird follow the plot of teens taking…
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