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Arguing against the aid package
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Arguing against the aid package

As we write, Congress is considering whether to send a large tranche of military aid to a faraway country under attack by a powerful neighbor. What follows is a short guide to some of the talking points favoring this aid that seem particularly unconvincing. We don’t pretend this discussion is comprehensive and stress that intelligent...

The Old Snack Bar: Campus’ best-kept study secret
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The Old Snack Bar: Campus’ best-kept study secret

It’s the only place you can get a Slim Jim at 2 a.m. and the best-kept secret study spot of campus: the Old Snack Bar.  There’s nothing quite like the OSB, and in my humble opinion, there is no better study spot on campus than the former snack bar. Now converted to a multipurpose space,...

Vatican’s ‘Dignitas Infinita’ challenges us with radical consistency
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Vatican’s ‘Dignitas Infinita’ challenges us with radical consistency

To those more familiar with Pope Francis from headlines and Fr. James Martin clips, the Catholic Church’s outright condemnation of surrogacy, euthanasia, and gender theory as grave violations of human dignity may come as a surprise. But it shouldn’t.  Pope Francis was in the news again last week with the Vatican’s release of “Dignitas Infinita,”...

Growing pains: Too old to live, to young to die
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Growing pains: Too old to live, to young to die

Being a college senior is awful because, for the first time in my life, I feel both too young and too old.  Freshmen vex me. Meanwhile, most of the friends I’ve made here have already left. I need to start paying a mortgage, but I don’t really know what one is yet. Worst of all,...

You have to win elections, but is abortion the right compromise?
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You have to win elections, but is abortion the right compromise?

Donald Trump said abortion should be left to the states in an April 8 video on his social media platform Truth Social. “The states will determine by vote, or legislation, or perhaps both, and whatever they decide must be the law of the land — in this case, the law of the state,”  said Trump,...