In our current political climate, many issues caused by identity politics stem from empathy. On this topic, Yale Psychology Professor Paul Bloom explains the dangers of empathetic decision-making in "Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion" (2016).Firstly, empathy is identifying ...
As a graduate student, there is only one question I dread more than those asking how my dissertation is coming along: “So you want to become a professor?”I do. That’s not the point.When someone asks me that question, I need to make a decision: Will I smile and say yes, or will I tell the harsh ...
The chicken salad sandwich. A Kosher Deli staple. Most commonly ordered on a bagel; however, those in the know take it on flatbread because you get one and a half scoops instead of the measly one. “Have you tried the chicken salad at KD?” your roommate asks you freshman year. “It’s sooooo good. ...
Content warning: This column mentions sexual violence.Few people have had as flamboyant, controversial or divisive of a public persona as Hugh Hefner. I myself have had wavering opinions about Hefner, beginning in childhood (I grew up in Los Angeles, so in many ways Playboy was part of my community). ...
Amidst talk of tuition hikes and increased housing costs, it’s refreshing to finally see a headline about saving students money. The TCU Senate’s Textbook Exchange, which took place from Sept. 4–12 saved students an estimated $30,000 in total. The event will hopefully be the first of many events ...
“Millennial: your generation got houses and jobsBoomer: yes but we lived with constant fear of nuclear winterMillennial: hold my avocado” — Twitter user @kennethnKen Norton’s tweet may be the ultimate embodiment of the millennial generation: one fraught with worries about future employment and ...
Ever since the Brexit referendum that ended with a small leave victory, the British public and media have been talking about the monumental decision: Brexit, Brexit, Brexit. There are so many moving parts to talk about: the opinions of different parties and politicians, the disagreements in the Tory ...
In "Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few" (2015) Robert Reich writes that the concept of a “‘free market’ separate and distinct from government has functioned as a useful cover for those who do not want the market mechanism fully exposed ... the mythology is useful precisely ...
Recently, I read an article in the Tufts Observer that recommended the economics department teach theories other than capitalism in order to prepare students to confront the racism, sexism and inequality in our society. The article cites capitalism as the cause of these problems and argues that the ...
More than 720 first-years voted in the most recent Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate election, greater than the number of first-year voters in 2015 and 2014, the two most recent years where this data is readily available. Increasing voter turnout is especially important given the low rates of participation ...
In response to a recent call to move “beyond capitalism” in the economics department at Tufts, I think it is important to remind ourselves that any academic department’s mission is to teach students to apply the tenets of its field to complex problems and their future careers, not to obsess over ...
These days it has become increasingly clear that comedy is a lot like alcohol. No, I don't mean that both are ways nervous men talk to women, or that both are significantly worse when you're in college, or any other silly one-liner. Rather I hope to argue that in the abstract, transgressive ...
Following the 2016 election, the Associated Press (AP) employed a new statistical method of calculating partisan advantage to analyze the outcomes of all U.S. House races as well as the outcomes of approximately 4,700 state-level House and Assembly seats. The method was designed to detect cases in which ...
Since Trump has become president, he has bombarded the American people with tweet after tweet, threatening everything from an end to health care access to nuclear war. Through all this, we have seen the rise and fall of Sean Spicer and our very own Anthony Scaramucci. We have seen the public humiliation ...
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