Written in response to David Mnitsa’s “Ignorance is Bliss” Last week’s op-ed, titled, “Ignorance is Bliss,” accepts as a premise that life is meaningless. Writer David Mnitsa then claims that the best way to get around our fundamental state of despair will be through the distractions ...
I write in to examine the integrity of last week’s article, titled, “Encouraging the Uncomfortable.” The inaccurate premises call in to question the conclusions. While I too would find censorship cause for alarm, the talk to which author Rachel Frank referred was not predicated on censorship, ...
Middlebury is hard. I have found attending this college to be challenging and exciting, and my experience here has shown me that learning for the sake of itself may be the most rewarding of adventures. This adventure can be characterized as leisure: we are lucky to have this opportunity to study, to ...