The UNIS elevator has been a contentious point of debate at UNIS for a while—particularly regarding the use of a “buddy.” The “buddy system” allows students with an elevator pass to have a friend...
It has been three years since Senior General Min Aung Hlaing led a coup d'etat to overthrow the democratically elected members of Myanmar’s ruling party on February 1, 2021. During those past three...
The UNIS Sports program is undoubtedly associated with winning. In the 2023 New York City Athletic League (NYCAL) fall season, both the boys’ varsity and junior varsity soccer teams won the NYCAL championship....
As we enter 2024, we are beginning another election year where America will hold what may be one of its most important referendums. On the anniversary of January 6, I would like to share some thoughts...
In an interview with The New York Times in March, Mayor Eric Adams vowed to "rid [homeless] encampments off our street and […] place people in healthy living conditions with wraparound services," within...
A series of unexpected events and activity in other institutions has prevented me from writing as much as I would like to. In my last article, “The Anthropocene and Posthumanism” (published in the...
On the early morning of February 24th, Russians found out that they were at war. After satellite imagery showed a military buildup on three sides of Ukraine over many months, Russian President Vladimir...
Please note: the following article contains an extensive discussion of eating disorders in the context of social media
Having a smartphone has become the new normal in our technology-dominated world....
The topic of universal healthcare has been hotly debated for years in American politics. Many candidates of the 2020 presidential election, such as Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, advocated for the...
Thinking that we were almost at the end of the race against the pandemic, many of us—including members of the administration—have let our guard and our masks down and have begun to rejoice. And yet...
“We are just a body. You have our soul.” — The Governor of Chile’s Easter Island on seeing one of the most spiritually important statues of the island held at the British Museum for the last 150...
“Lines of flight” is a term coined by the philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari to trace the pathways of desire and to describe the totality of ideas that can spring out of the unconscious:...
