It’s Time to Revamp K-12 Education with Vouchers
Public education is important—this much is beyond dispute. But besides that one understatement, everything else is fair game. As a core cog in American life, as a political and ideological […]
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Three Things I Learned About Politics from Providing Scientific Testimony
It was great to wear both my scientist and activist hats at the same time when I provided testimony against an anti-abortion bill in South Carolina. South Carolina introduced a […]
The Problem with “With Us or Against Us” Rhetoric
I’m sure I’m not the only one who has observed the phenomena of all or nothing approaches to discourse. To put it another way, if we disagree in just one […]
The Importance of Liberal Arts Literacy: One STEM Major’s Perspective
A few posts ago, I argued for the importance of widespread scientific literacy. I claimed that “scientific literacy—in conjunction with political, mathematical, and other literacies—is a civic responsibility”. For symmetry’s […]
The Excesses of Anti-Eurocentrism
It may seem trivial to point out that criticism of the Western tradition has become an accepted part of our discourse. Up until a few decades ago, however, Eurocentrism—the idea […]
The Only Thing We Have to Fear
By Alex Abbott American University The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. – Franklin Delano Roosevelt Three Muslim students murdered in Chapel Hill. Activist Raif Badawi imprisoned […]
The Top Three Political Battles Facing the Secular Movement This Year
With the religious rights’ stranglehold on the Republican Party, the results of the mid-term elections left few friends of secularism in Congress. The so-called “party of no” got straight to […]
Why We’re Here: Exploring the Causes of Hong Kong’s Protests
By Denzel Zhu Sophomore, Rutgers University Last Friday, November 14, marked the seventh week of Occupy Central: the protests in the Hong Kong that were sparked by electoral reforms proposed […]
A Defense of Social Labels
Are you a Democrat or Republican? A Christian, or maybe Muslim? An Atheist? What’s your stance on abortion: Pro-Life or Pro-Choice? What’s your ethnicity? Labels for political parties, religions, races, […]
Survival Achieved–Now What?
Humans, as a species, no longer struggle to survive. We survive. Arguably too well. We inhabit almost every corner of the globe and have figured out how to survive in […]
Applied Sentience 