“If a voter won’t show up to the polls and a citizen can’t pass a ninth-grade civics test, why would either care what Congress is up to?”
Column, Opinions
We Need to Talk About Politics
“How can we solve all of the problems that our country faces today if we are too afraid to talk about them?”
Opinions, Column
Learning Unity in the United States
“To me, patriotism is endearing because what people are expressing pride in is something intangible, an idea that makes them American.”
Opinions, Column
Conservative or Liberal? You Can’t be Both
“That this coupling could exist harmoniously in theory is unlikely and in practice impossible. Indeed, the dissonance and mismatch of these incongruent ideals are jarring and cacophonous.”
Features, Column
A History Major’s Defense: Using the Past to Inform the Future
History repeats itself, observes features columnist DJ Recny as he uses professorial anecdotes and historical events to navigate through life.
Column, Opinions
Countering the Narrative of American Decline
“The American people must be disabused of this narrative of American decline that so often inundates our airwaves and spews from the media and politicians alike.”
Column, Opinions
The Political Climate at BC
“I’d posit that this lack of frequent, visible events is due to a combination of both less political extremism and less political interest.”
Column, Opinions
What is a Conservative?
“Admittedly, being a conservative is difficult in this progressive and egalitarian age.”
Opinions, Column
A GOP in Jeopardy
“It’s all very well to explore and discuss the Party’s problems, but four years later, nothing has changed.”
Column, Opinions
A Republican Case for Clinton
“America under Clinton might not flourish economically the way it would under a true, avowed fiscal conservative, but it would certainly be safe.”
