Opinion
Juan Sebastián Pinto | Lessons from an African American colony in the Great Plains
Nearly all the town's buildings had been razed for scrap wood, and those that remained standing had either caved-in, or seemed to be held up by the dead trees rising besides them.
Isabel Kim | No win scenario
ISABEL KIM is a College senior from Warren, N.J., studying English and Fine Arts.
Guest Column | Confronting Radical Islam
After the recent atrocities in Westminster, Manchester, and London, the politically correct in the United Kingdom and the world are yet again fully engaged in assiduously ignoring the threat we all face. The facts are as plain as they are uncomfortable — the world is currently living through an unprecedented threat, a modern enemy fighting for an archaic, theocratic vision that president George W.
Juan Sebastián Pinto | Finding identity and responsibility in the environment
The trail began at the grounds of the Mesa Laboratory of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, a pink concrete building perched on the slopes of Green Mountain, near Boulder, Colorado.
Vinayak Kumar | How to change someone's political views
Recently, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about what it would take for someone of one political persuasion to ‘switch sides’. There’s a lot of merit to the idea that we, especially at Penn, restrict ourselves to ‘echo chambers’ where our communities and groups are just reflections of our own backgrounds and beliefs.
Isabel Kim | Fraud news
ISABEL KIM is a College senior from Warren, N.J., studying English and Fine Arts.
Guest Column | Graduate students are workers — let us vote
As a graduate student worker at the University of Pennsylvania, I research the politics of emotion as a member of the political science department.
Guest Column |Reflections of a Penn community organizer, W‘67
On May 13, an article in the Daily Pennsylvanian discussed my intention to create a conversation over alumni weekend about President Trump’s association with the University, by wearing and offering pins that said “UPenn: Denounce Trump.” The online commentary mostly deplored my action, calling button bearers “snowflakes” and “adult children”. One said, “Most universities would be PROUD.” They deserve a response. As a 50 year student of administrative science, I felt that Penn needed a “system power move”. (Defn: a high leverage, small action that makes a difference; exemplar: Pussy Riot.) I wanted reiterate the demand made by many others that the University to take a stand on Trump.
Vinayak Kumar | The special theory of ethical relativity
The rise of multiculturalism has created an environment where all backgrounds, and by extension all opinions, are given equal standing.Isabel Kim | Real life conversations
ISABEL KIM is a College senior from Warren, N.J., studying English and Fine Arts.
Juan Sebastián Pinto | A nature like us
Sometime in 1999 my father took me along on his daily ride to work. He was a landscape architect and had been working on planting a rose garden in the backyard of a large, concrete house.
Guest Column | Wharton faculty urge Congress and the Courts to defend the rule of law
President Trump appears to have an indifferent, if not downright disdainful, attitude to the rule of law.
Guest Statement | An open letter to legislators and others to support the rule of law
The economic system of free enterprise and our cherished democratic institutions depend on the certainty, stability, integrity, and legitimacy provided by the rule of law.
Olivia Fitzpatrick | Why I’m throwing JFK a birthday party
I am throwing JFK a hundredth birthday party on May 29th. The signature drink will be the Jack & Coke; pun intended.