Sometimes, it’s easy to think our campus is a bubble and things that happen here don’t have much relation to what’s going on in the “real world.” Occasionally, this bubble is popped. On October 4, I listened to a panel discussion following a screening of the documentary Some of My Best Friends are Zionists where,...
In 1978, Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn said in an address, “Western society [has] expanded in a triumph of human independence and power. And all of a sudden in the 20th century came the discovery of its fragility.” Today, we live in this society of fragility: we rely on bureaucratic structures to provide for us, and...