Category / 2021 / Green / International / Miscellaneous
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A Green China Emerges?
By Collin McGovern Recent international policy has witnessed the world's major players toiling to implement renewable energy designed to safeguard against the environmental disasters that accompany rising temperatures. As democracies struggle to implement long-lasting reforms, the ever-authoritative CCP has seemingly thundered China towards climate oblivion, erecting scores of ozone-hungry factories across the mainland and… -
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Space Invasion: An Ongoing Violation of Cultural Boundaries
In a moving world committed to societal advancement, the international community and the United States, have increasingly relied on integration: the collaboration of ideas, beliefs, cultures, and colors to build an inclusive world representative of those that live in it. And while the country that so boldly prides itself on being “the land of the…
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The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly Of The Supreme Court Decision On Gerrymandering
After years of punting the issue to lower courts, the Supreme Court finally ruled on the constitutionality of partisan gerrymandering. In Rucho v. Common Cause the majority justices concluded in their decision, written by Chief Justice John Roberts, that partisan gerrymandering was a question beyond the scope of the Supreme Court. Essentially, what Roberts argued…
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A Resolution Against Genuine Resolve
In the game of nuclear deterrence, holds a position of particular importance. A nation’s ability to convince other nations of its willingness to use its arsenal forms the bedrock of instilling a mutually assured destruction mentality in its foes. Resolve can accurately be considered a necessary tool in achieving this objective; demonstrating resolution to use…
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How Korean Military Conscription Affects Students At WashU
In 1948, the Republic of Korea instituted a system of mandatory military service. Since then, despite whirlwind changes to its political economy and society, conscription has remained a universal obligation for all South Korean males. Every male, from scions of wealthy business executives to the offspring of rural farmers, will spend at least two years…
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Inland Conservative Elites
Since the 2016 election, the prevailing consensus about America’s cultural divide is that there are the educated, wealthy, coastal liberal elites who look down on the poor, rural, conservative Americans who live in flyover states. Many Trump supporters cited this as the reason for their vote in the 2016 election. They were supposedly tired of…
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Clashing Sensitivities Across Cultures
China has now become a de facto superpower, second to only the US through its great sway in world economics. However, China achieved this by developing a unique economic and political structure very unlike that of the US or many other Western countries. Needless to say, the authoritarian communist government has attracted the most attention…
