Another election approaches, and soon hordes of “rationally ignorant” citizens (myself included) will shuffle to the ballots to vote. But we can’t really blame them (ourselves?) for their ignorance: Contemporary political discourse is boring, predictable, and all in all deplorable. Everyone appeals to some conception of justice, and these conceptions usually depend upon posited, universal...
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October 30, 2014July 12, 2022Opinions
You keep disagreeing, Hillsdale
Less than a week from today, Election Day 2014 will arrive. Indeed, thanks to early voting and overwhelming media coverage, it has, for all intents and purposes, arrived already. To Hillsdale, this means a bit more than to students at other campuses. In 2012, students not only traveled to the key swing state of Ohio...
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October 30, 2014July 12, 2022Opinions
Not to vote
We have been told all of our lives that voting is our civic duty. However, when the polls close this Tuesday, will it matter whom we voted for? The population is large, misinformed, and apathetic, and the legislator’s primary concern is self-perpetuation. The current system is not worth buying into, so cast your vote by...
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October 30, 2014July 12, 2022Opinions
The fallacy of non-ideology
Clichés make for bad writing, but in politics they can be downright dangerous. That was the thesis of Bronte Wigen’s recent Collegian op-ed, “The Jeopardy of Political Jargon.” Her identification of several phrases common to the national political discourse that lend themselves to ambiguity and misdirection was interesting, but even more so was the question...
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October 30, 2014July 12, 2022Opinions
Reformation day: 500 years later
For Lutherans, Reformation Day is about being catholic. And that means it’s all about the central article of the catholic faith: How Christ atoned for the world’s sin on the cross and thus justifies those incapable of earning salvation themselves. The question of what is “catholic” (a word meaning “universal,” as in the “one holy...