At (extremely) long last, the 2020 Iowa caucuses are just 10 days away. I’ve been writing about the presidential-nomination race since the fall of 2017. I wrote about the campaign outlooks for more...
I’m writing in response to the self-congratulatory claims quoted in the Daily Iowan article of Dec. 11, “Four UI shared-governance branches back public/private partnership.” This article appears...
It’s still syllabus week, but that didn’t stop my geography professor from starting her lesson plan. In my Introduction to Sustainability class this week, we learned about the three E’s of sustainability:...
The “good guy with a gun” trope is one of the few that gets repeated to the point of redundancy because it’s actually true. A study published in 2018 by the Crime Prevention Research Center showed...
There are often moral panics about the most recent development about whatever’s popular. There’s TikTok now, and social media before that, and rock music before that. A decade ago, that panic was...
I frequently spend time around my department’s professors as a philosophy major at the University of Iowa. During office hours with UI Philosophy Visiting Assistant Professor Keith Harris, he relays...
At the most recent Democratic presidential-nomination debate, CNN took a break from the standard policy questions to ask Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., a simple question: Why do you hate women?
It wasn’t...
I like a lot of things that other people love to hate: pineapple on pizza, Fox News, and most importantly — Nickelback.
To say Nickelback is the worst ignores the group’s greatest hits such as “Rockstar”...
A question has emerged in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination: Does every American have the right to a high-quality, low-cost public education?
For those of us who believe it is,...
The New York Times Editorial Board announced Sunday endorsement for the Democratic presidential nomination: nobody.
It didn’t actually do that; it endorsed Sens. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts...
Whether you had a first semester that seemed to fly by with little complications or you had a rough time navigating the obstacles that come with college life, break is done and it’s time to start...
