This time of year features many elections, from an unexpectedly competitive New Zealand election to a German election that saw Merkel triumph again. The two I want to focus on are controversial referenda taking the question of independence to people who are being told by central governments that they ...
On Mondays, I spend three consecutive hours in Barnum Hall. I make my way past the Jumbo statue and enter by the stone lions that guard the doors. In the façade etched into the stone, the building declares itself home of the biology department. As I wander through the labyrinth of far-too-yellow hallways, ...
The frantic pace and chaos of urban life has, among other things, strained the dating lives of adults around the world. No one has time for things they consider to be unimportant and not urgent like dating, and as a result long-weekends in the White Mountains have been replaced with punctual dinners ...
Welcome to Postgame Press, the column about current, hot-button sports events … that take place off the field. The week’s best plays may have been fun to watch, but there is plenty more happening after the final buzzer. Without further ado, here is a look into a serious issue in the NFL, and a brighter ...
I remember coming home from elementary school and every so often finding baked goods waiting for me in the refrigerator. This phenomenon always took place on Fridays, when my folks were able to leave work early. It made for a great start to the weekend, especially in the days before homework and job ...
I came to Tufts a proud Democrat and confident progressive. As a result of liberal identity politics, I will leave in May without a clear political identity. This is why the Democratic Party cannot win elections and someone like Stephen Miller can end up a senior White House official.Progressive icons ...
In the first edition of Citizen Shame, we'll be taking a look at a movie that features Nicolas Cage talking weirdly. You might be inclined to ask: isn’t that every Nicolas Cage movie? You would be correct, of course, but in "Con Air" (1997), his voice somehow manages to be even weirder ...
During Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma, various reports of airline price hikes emerged,including a report of a ticket from Miami to New York ballooning upwards of nearly 1000 percent its typical cost. For those who remained in the storm’s wake, as stores closed and employees fled or took shelter, ...
My dad sometimes says to me something along the lines of, "Every act, no matter how large or small, will enact some kind of change in the universe. Whether or not that act is significant is a possibility whose full potential isn’t extinguished once the moment is over."He says it's from Carl ...
When Paul Pogba returned to Manchester United for a then-world-record fee of $116.4 million, many thought the club had lost it. Yet such is the market today that 18-year-old Kylian Mbappe, hardly proven at the highest level of the game, is to move to Paris St. Germain for about $210 million next ...
Nothing is more exciting than watching, laughing and screaming at over-the-top horror movie scenes, from Samara crawling out of a well in "The Ring" (2002) to twins appearing ominously in "The Shining" (1980). But one thing may be even better (and more satisfying): forcing helpless friends to watch ...
College applications love to ask about failure. Your first failure, your most recent failure, even your worst failure, and how you dealt with it. This question is meant to show growth and perseverance, how failing made you stronger. Two years ago, when I was applying to colleges, there was only one problem: I had never failed at anything before.
Content Warning: This column mentions sexual violence.Hello, is this thing on? This is a column where I take a stab at the good, the bad and the ugly of pop music. Last year I kicked things off with a Kanye throwback, so let’s start with the complete opposite: whatever the heck Taylor Swift is ...
United States Men’s Soccer fans walking away from Red Bull Arena on the night of Sept. 1 had only one thought on their minds: how is this team going to qualify for the 2018 World Cup? Costa Rica, playing in its usual 5–4–1, outfought and outplayed a supposedly “superior” U.S. team to the ...
There are currently multiple companies that have created computer programs capable of replacing a team of lawyers and paralegals with a computer program and a few lawyers.There are firms that are testing programs capable of doing project management jobs in many contexts. You have probably unwittingly ...
Colin Kaepernick, the former quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, is unemployed. The flavor of this NFL offseason was every pundit, reporter and former player weighing in on whether Kaepernick is blackballed or is simply not talented enough to be picked up. I believe the former, but not for the ...
A returning Tufts student may arrive on campus with many thoughts, feelings and desires, many of which differ greatly from the year before. But alas, one experience of our fall beginnings will never change: the mass congregations of first-years. The seniors, juniors and even some sophomores have found ...
In light of the recent gala at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, I thought that it would be great to end this semester with a celebration of designer Rei Kawakubo. After all, “dulcis in fundo.” The Japanese designer started one of the most recognizable brands in the industry to this day, Comme ...
This is my last column ever for The Tufts Daily *cue sad music.* I’ve been informed that it won’t print until Commencement where “hundreds of parents will read it, so you better not be inappropriate again.” Oops, wasn’t supposed to include that last bit.I’ve had an awesome time writing for ...
This year has been a challenge to order. Whether you like the current order or not, at least it exists. We live in order, not in chaos. The existence of an order is not pre-ordained and there are places without it.A challenge to order can be a force for good when it is constructive and represents a ...
