Since the Ronald Regan era, it seems like emphasis has been placed on the individual over the collective. A collective can be one’s local organizations or even the United States as a whole; the individual can be the self or, since Citizens United, a corporation. Every day many people function chaotically, running around aimlessly completing tasks that might benefit others but most likely only themselves. … Continue reading The Necessity of the Collective

I hope that title grabbed your attention, and if it did grab your attention you’re probably not sexually liberated. You read that correctly. If you read that title, and immediately decided this article would be worth your time you are enslaved by sex, even if you won’t admit it. I would like to contend that true sexual liberation isn’t freedom from heterosexual and monogamous norms … Continue reading Are You Sexually Liberated?

Cause you know I love the players, and you love the game,” Taylor Swift cheers in her hit song, “Blank Space”. She’s satirizing the media’s perception of her, but us non-celebrities sing along with non-sarcastic gusto. Because after we’ve been broken up with for the third time, discovered the cute boy in our Am. Lit. class has a girlfriend, and swiped to the end of … Continue reading Dating is a Game and We’re All Players