February can be a dreary time for many — it’s been cold out for nearly half a year and it often seems like the sun will never emerge. But for some students and faculty, it’s a time of year that is a prime opportunity for outdoor sports and recreation. Meet the winter sports enthusiasts of...
The first smell is the deep, rich smell of coffee, reminiscent of lazy, warm winter mornings. The second is the sweet smell of cookies, recalling old-world holidays and childhood. The walls are lined by sporadic bookshelves, which hold classics like “The Iliad,” “Romeo and Juliet,” and “The Scarlet Letter.” Little green plants line the windows...
A fifth-grade social-studies teacher in Philadelphia recently forced students to celebrate Black History Month by honoring “black communism” and Angela Davis, a communist activist and former Black Panther. The news created a stir on social media but should come as no surprise to those who have followed the radical agenda infecting every level of America’s...
Every hockey player has a childhood hockey hero — someone they try to imitate as they weave the puck back and forth, pretending they’re in a shootout and going for the game-winning goal. Mine was Sidney Crosby, the Pittsburgh Penguins’ captain, who just last week was the first franchise member to play 1,000 games. Even...
Noam Chomsky is a radical leftist, but he taught me more about Donald Trump than any other public intellectual. In his 1988 work, “Manufacturing Consent,” the political activist, philosopher, and linguist described how elites manipulate public opinion — and in doing so, he anticipated the fall of Trump. Chomsky writes that manufacturing consent is the...