Over Christmas break my brother and I went book shopping in the Hyde Park district of Chicago. It was at Powell’s Bookstore that I purchased a volume entitled The Collected Shorter Plays of Samuel Beckett, published by Grove Press.
Samuel Beckett is arguably the most important playwright of the 20th century. He is most known for [...]

Let me first make it known that I am writing this text in order to shed light on one of the greatest evils of the world. Abortion has been a pressing moral issue long before the case of Roe v. Wade. Abortion is truly a selfish and heartless act in and of itself. It is [...]

What a thing it is to be an archivist.
History classes these days are glossy. We read books that are printed on slick paper and have a lot of pictures. There is emphasis on using a wide variety of sources to construct a picture of daily life in a long-ago time. There’s not necessarily anything wrong [...]

In an all-campus email sent at 2:20AM entitled “Houston we have a problem”, a student accused those in power of favoring certain clubs (The Wabash Conservative Union included) over others. This spark helped set off an all-day wildfire of accusations, misinterpretations, and (at times) comic relief whose flames were only fanned by the general apathy [...]

On January 8, 2011, tragedy struck when 22 year-old Jared Loughner attempted to assassinate Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in Tucson Arizona. Loughner was charged with killing six people and wounding fourteen. Following the assassination attempt, there was an overwhelming response from the media.
TIME magazine took very little time before spreading left-wing propaganda. Articles blaming gun laws [...]

Fun fact: Division I is the only academic division that has classes for the sole purpose of distribution. Chemistry 101, Biology 101, and Physics 101 and 105 are classes students are counseled to take if they don’t want to major or minor in that subject. I believe this wrong. First, it robs the student of [...]

On the heels of a Conservative revolution led by tea-partiers and a shift away from letting centrist Republicans such as John McCain be the face of the party, and after the beginning of Speaker of the House John Boehner’s reign on the Hill, the GOP has shifted its focus to 2012. Republicans will undoubtedly attack [...]