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:...
“Existential fear appears to be at the heart of what drives polarization.”
–Kirk Schneider, Ph.D. Columbia University
Over the last 20 years, political polarization and partisan antipathy have...
A Brief Note to the Administration, Counselors, Teachers, Parents …
This article is based on conversations and interactions I have had with fellow IB students. It would be wrong to say that certain...
This year marks the 32nd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre, which took place on June 4th, 1989. Untold numbers of university students from all across China were brutally murdered in a night...
By Sophie Hafter, Contributing writer
• April 28, 2021
As a young female Asian-American, this past year, I have been horrified at the violent attacks on Asian communities globally and violence against women that have come to the surface. I was adopted from...
