Crimson opinion writer
Sahil Handa
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Asking The Difficult Questions
These questions are not original; nor do they invite easy conclusions. But the fact that they often seem to be missing from the conversation concerns me.
Conserving Disagreement
To the extent that I am a conservative, I want to conserve conversation; if we lose respectful disagreement, we lose the foundation of our freedom.
Spring Break Postcard: Spring Break In The 51st State
The more I explored San Juan, the more I noticed the frustrations lying beneath the vibrant surface.
What Brexit Means for Democracy
Most of all, it is necessary to set out a positive vision for liberal democracy: one that can speak to people’s distrust of the so-called establishment.
San Juan
"The more I explored San Juan, the more I noticed the frustrations that lay beneath the vibrant surface."
How Do You Prescribe a Drug for a Culture?
Changes in consciousness produce changes in culture. Although we often think of politics and economics as the primary ways to create social change, our drug habits do so too, starting from the level of the individual.
Criticisms of Course Syllabi Are Not Created Equal
If we study the genius of Ibn Rushd and Gandhi in the same departments that we do Douglass and Dickens, we might realize that all of these works have more to say to our lives than we think.
Student Activism Has Lost Its Spirit
Today, those seeking social justice are more often associated with political correctness than radical impudence; freedom of speech has become a talking point of the right rather than the left.
