Opinion

Last week, I had the unfortunate experience of falling down a PragerU rabbit hole. For those of you lucky enough to be ignorant of PragerU, it is a conservative media institution whose content ranges from talk radio to children’s cartoons....

On Sept. 29, The Daily Mississippian published an opinion piece titled, “Society does not owe you anything” by Hannah Newsom. From a UM alumna and former opinion columnist for The Daily Mississippian: This piece was an embarrassment.  Let’s first look...

On Sept. 22 of this year, the 5th circuit of the Federal Court of Appeals heard arguments regarding Mississippi’s felony voting ban. Mississippi’s current law states that “you permanently lose the right to vote if you are convicted of one...

We need a more honest definition of what it means when America is called to own up to its past. On the surface, this call is made to sound like an olive branch: The system is against me, but I...

Amending their previous suggestion, the Mississippi Institutes of Higher Learning (IHL) voted to prohibit public colleges and universities from mandating the COVID-19 vaccine as a condition for employment or enrollment, excluding medical institutions. IHL issued a statement at their Aug....

Ole Miss is struggling to find its identity in the modern world, and enshrining racists should have no place in that process. After it was dragged kicking and screaming into desegregation in the 1960s, the university has endured many controversies...

On the afternoon of Sept. 14, 2021, I was in my car at the stoplight where Sorority Row and Jackson Ave intersect. While I was waiting for the light to turn green, a red, lifted, Ford truck pulled up beside...

Life as a disabled student at Ole Miss is as similar to that of a non-disabled student as it is different. I still went to frat parties pre-COVID-19, I still go to football games and I still do all the...

We live in a theocracy, and Freedom is our God. The nation’s most famous port, New York Harbor, houses a statue dedicated to this principle. A replica of the Liberty Bell serves as a similar reminder on the Mississippi Capitol...

On Sept. 10, The Daily Mississippian published an opinion column titled, “Rewriting our past only endangers our future.” This piece argued against teaching subjects like Critical Race Theory and in favor of teaching history in a way that reinforces America’s...