Category: Opinions

Dear Sen. Bruce Caswell, I have noticed an unfortunate trend in modern poetry toward what people call “free verse”: Poetry that is written without meter. I would like to discuss why I find this trend disturbing and what I hope you and others will do about it. To begin, the term “free verse” is in...

Imagine your computer is in need of repair, but you are forbidden from finding the cheapest, highest-quality technician possible. Instead, state law requires you to wade through bureaucratic paperwork and forces you to pay the technician far more than the market price. Though such a law would sound ludicrous, this is exactly what state law...

Last week the Tower Player’s production of the 2004 play “Almost, Maine” shocked some of the more conservative elements of Hillsdale College. Professor of theatre Michael Beyer asked students to come in with an open mind and perhaps leave with the door slightly ajar. Instead, some audience members left visibly offended. Yes, theatre often does...

On Oct. 10, 2014, I mercifully deactivated the poor, neglected entity that was once my Facebook account. I terminated a long-abandoned Twitter profile, and even made a new, disposable email account for a fresh Spotify profile that is unlinked to any of my previous media profiles. While most of the modern world is becoming further...

There’s a new buzzword to add to the list of things not to shout in an airport: Ebola. Ebola has taken not only the nation but the world by storm since it began in West Africa, with what researchers believe was a single person who contracted the virus from fruit bats of the Pteropodidae family....