Dear Editor, I greatly appreciated Emma Cummins’ observations in “Resist Masktopia” (Collegian, 22 Oct. 2020). I can understand how, in certain limited, specific situations, the wearing of properly constructed masks and following proper medical protocols regarding use, handling, and changing, could be beneficial. But the universal wearing of masks, in all situations, strikes me as...
Author: Charles Steele (Charles Steele)
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Letter to the Editor: Social justice is unjust
Dear Editor, Social justice is the philosophy and practice of dividing people into various demographic categories and then treating them unequally, giving unearned rewards to some and unearned punishments to others. Social justice is thus extremely unjust. In the American context, social justice consists mostly of punishing Asian and white people, while benefiting a relatively...
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Office Hours: Freedom makes our country, college unique
From 1999 through the end of 2001, I taught in a graduate program in Kyiv, Ukraine, at National University Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. In the first few weeks after I arrived, a famous Ukrainian academic was tragically killed in a car accident and the entire campus closed for a few hours for a memorial service. All our...
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Letter: AEI’s Charles Murray’s unwarranted conclusions
On Wednesday, Charles Murray of the American Enterprise Institute visited campus to speak about one of his books, “Coming Apart,” and the effects modern politics have had on America’s social classes. A few things struck me during Murray’s lecture. First, Dr. Murray struck me as not fully honest in response to Associate Dean of Men...
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Letter to the Editor: Dr. Steele
Dear editor, As I listen to my fellow citizens debate the upcoming election, it strikes me that many regard voting and endorsing candidates – or refraining from this – as first of all an exercise in signaling one’s personal moral virtue, or perhaps an exercise in personal absolution. Well, it’s not, and potentially this is...