Column: We should seek political truths in more than data
“Compassion must, in fact, be the stronger, the more the animal beholding any kind of distress identifies himself with the animal that suffers.”
Read More »“Compassion must, in fact, be the stronger, the more the animal beholding any kind of distress identifies himself with the animal that suffers.”
Read More »A central component of Trump’s campaign was his promise to “bring back jobs.” And to give credit where credit is due, his administration has been ...
Read More »The editor-in-chief of this paper recently argued that basketball is a UNC religion.
Read More »Ten years ago — let’s all consider, for a moment, the fact that 2007 was 10 years ago — I was picked up, one day, from fourth grade by my grandmother. ...
Read More »I’m reading a book about pastoral England in Queen Victoria’s time. The village of Haworth was in revolt because its minister had just died, and by ...
Read More »In 2007, long-graduated DTH columnist Ian Williams wrote that “Every religion must have its Devil, and ours are Blue.”
Read More »Betrayal is all I can seem to do these days — which is odd, because I don’t think of myself as a traitor.
Read More »Editor’s note: Ian Williams, a 1990 UNC alumnus, was a columnist for The Daily Tar Heel when he wrote the iconic column “Why I Hate Duke.” The column ...
Read More »Michael Flynn resigned as National Security Advisor on Feb. 13 amidst reports of his having promised the Russian government that the Trump administration ...
Read More »In July of 2016, I started on an endless and impossible quest to compile every song that mentions North Carolina.
Read More »This weekend, I had the pleasure of seeing “Get Out” — and yes, it certainly earned the 99 percent rating it was given on Rotten Tomatoes. ...
Read More »“Comprehensive immigration reform will grow our economy and keep families together — and it's the right thing to do.”
Read More »Before I get on with column, have we all seen the movie “Get Out”?
Read More »It was Alaska who made me fall in love with drag. And, truthfully, it was Alaska who made me fall in love with being queer.
Read More »My favorite TV show is ending. “Girls,” the often controversial and critiqued HBO series, is ending. While the mourning period hasn’t yet hit me, ...
Read More »I have been a vegetarian since I was 8. I did it because I really liked animals, and it made me sad thinking about them dying for the sake of pepperoni ...
Read More »This week, two N.C. General Assembly Republicans came together with two Democrats to sponsor a bill that “repeals” the controversial House Bill 2. ...
Read More »Socialism — one of the greatest Bogeymen in the minds of the American Republic throughout the last century.
Read More »The genesis of my love for studying art can be traced pretty concretely, in my mind, to a moment during my senior year of high school.
Read More »Last April, my adviser (that’s, like, your boss in graduate school) informed me that he didn’t think I “had it in me” to finish a Ph.D. and that ...
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