Opinion

The recent violence in Charlottesville has renewed discussion of the appropriate place of Confederate memorials across the nation. On Saturday August 12, in a university town not unlike ours, white supremacists gathered to protest the removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee. Chanting slogans such as “Jews will not...

The iPad is a confused device. Apple envisions it as the next wave in personal computing, while many people view it as a bigger screen on which to watch Netflix. Sales of the device have reflected this confusion, with sales steadily declining for the past three years. Apple always saw...

As Hurricane Harvey made landfall on the Texas coast as a Category 4 storm and Gov. Greg Abbott authorized a massive evacuation effort, the Customs and Border Protection Agency (CBP) announced that its anti-immigrant agenda was more important than the safety of Texas residents. In previous administrations, checkpoint operations ceased...

With the ongoing radicalization of both the left and the right across our nation, there has been a consistent push for discussing whether to expand or restrict our free speech. The First Amendment means to me that any speech can be allowed unless it does not encourage peace, causes violence or is...

Days after a white supremacist demonstration incited racial violence and claimed three lives in Charlottesville, Virginia, President Donald Trump blamed “many sides,” asserted that the “alt-left” was also “very, very violent” and championed Confederate iconography. Public criticism and political fallout followed, with national business leaders and Republican lawmakers alike condemning his comments. Yet...

This summer, a petition floating around the Ole Miss social scene caught my attention. The petition accused the university of atrociously failing at its sacred duty to pack enough fluff into our general education requirements for students to shell out an additional $100 or $200 for textbooks to classes we haven’t been forced to take...

The now-rescinded parking rule about pulling through and backing into parking spots was not the only change that the university's parking and transportation department created this summer. Making your way around campus, you will notice a lot of changes, but what you might not notice are the unnecessary barriers the...

Last weekend, Jackson was full of authors speaking about their work for this year’s Mississippi Book Festival, the annual “literary lawn party” held on and around the Capitol grounds. Hidden among all the talk about books was a potential path to more productive conversations about important issues. One particularly interesting...

If you’re anything like me, you may find yourself hesitating to open social media after a polarizing political event. Once-tame Facebook feeds become cesspools of misinformation and inflammatory comments, with the occasional breath of fresh air in the form of a post involving puppies. This tires me out and occasionally...

As today’s solar eclipse teaches us, a lack of light can be a cold and frightening experience. Unfortunately, this summer revealed an even more unnerving darkness: the lack of intellectualism in our nation's mass media. In a country where in 1787 a small group of intellectuals forged one of the world's strongest democratic systems...