Blind faith in the efficiency of markets has not always existed, though mainstream political discourse does little to question our neoliberal zeitgeist. The regulatory programs of the New Deal, despite being gutted to an extent pre-2008, were formed under the assumption that simply writing off economic catastrophe as a “market correction” was not good enough, as there...
I wonder how many people have to die before people realize words have power. Three people are dead—including a police officer—in Colorado Springs because a man believed Planned Parenthood was selling baby parts. He bought into the rhetoric many prominent political personas have been spouting and used it to justify the murder of American citizens. How many mothers,...
Deep in Uncanny Valley lives Roxxxy, a woman who is not a woman — a human one, at least. Clad in tantalizing lingerie, her bright eyes are fixed in an everlasting, lifeless stare. Her painted mouth is constantly left in a sultry and silent beckoning call. Every square inch of her is ideal. Roxxxy was crafted with one sole purpose, and that purpose is to please you. Roxxxy,...
One of the unfortunate outcomes of the Paris attacks has been that over half of the United States’ governors have vowed to keep refugees out of their states. Our own governor, Phil Bryant, said he would do “anything humanly possible” to resist refugees’ entrance into Mississippi. At first glance, this train of thought may seem reasonable, specifically when ...
In the wake of the horrific, coordinated attacks that took place in Paris on Friday, the discussion of how to prevent instances of terrorism is once again front and center in the United States. In the American terrorism conversation, one can only reach two logical conclusions: either we do not mean what we say, or we cannot bring ourselves to say what we mean. In the first...
Dear Editor, The Libertarian party is the third-largest party in the American political spectrum, but it is largely misunderstood and the target for many attacks on its ideology. Liberty is defined as “the state of being free within a society from oppressive restrictions imposed by authority on one’s way of life, behavior, or political views.” Liberty, this is the...
The Friday the 13th massacres have dominated world news. Like 9/11, this event has the capacity to redefine contemporary societal function. Change in policy surely will occur in ways that won’t even be fully observable until a decade from now, when hindsight makes obvious the difference between before Nov. 13, 2015 and after it. One change that will have immediate manifestations...
Dear Editor, The events at the University of Missouri showed authoritarians demanding the ousting of executives because their feelings were hurt. Whether or not the students as a whole wanted the executives removed, we will never know. This is because the authoritarian mindset is not based on the will of the people but instead based on the notion that a few select individuals...
