Archive | Columns
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Column: No Apology – The creation of a man and a myth
“No Apology” is Romney’s first attempt at collecting his thoughts, opinions, and views of the world in a coherent text for the public.
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Column: The politics of treasure
In 2007, the treasure-hunting company Odyssey made a spectacular discovery, locating the wreck of the Nuestra Senora de las Mercedes, a Spanish frigate laced with over $500 million dollars worth of gold coins.
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Column: The state of religious freedom
Enshrined in the First Amendment to the Constitution, provisions ensuring the freedom of religious worship and barring the establishment of a state religion have been held sacred in the United States since its founding.
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Column: Attack of the drones
Last Monday, President Obama acknowledged the CIA’s covert drone assassination program for the first time, in an online town hall of all places.
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Column: Say ‘I love you’ every day, not just Valentine’s Day
This weekend, the weekend before Valentine’s Day, many will observe the holiday early at their convenience. Dinner, flowers and chocolates — the whole shebang is likely to unfold over the next couple of days.
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Column: Iraq slips deeper into sectarianism while America pretends otherwise
The civil demonstrations rocking the Arab world are unequivocally kind to America’s interests in at least one regard—we can continue to pretend that Iraq stopped existing when we stopped caring.
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Column: Facebook is important, deactivation movement is misguided
Over winter break I met my friend Emily for lunch in Boston. To passersby we probably looked like old friends—effortlessly conversing about our families, friends and campus life.
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Column: Super PACs explained
I was astounded by the types of political ads that I saw when I went home to Iowa over winter break. We’ve all heard of these types of ads: Politician A speaks softly about the problems the nation is facing, points out how politician B couldn’t possibly be tasked to solve the issues and finall...
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Column: A case for the flat tax
If we acknowledge the way we currently collect federal taxes as both inefficient and unfair, what can we do differently to correct it? The strength of a flat tax is in its simplicity.