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Social Media and Youth Activism
The recent surge of youth-led social movements has led many to claim that youth activism is on the rise. Looking at history, it is clear that young people have often been on the forefront of social change. We can see examples of youth activism in the US by looking back to the 1960s. Students were…
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Our Triggered Youth
I—like many students who were home over fall break—went to the mall. My sister and I spent a day at the mall because we were on a very specific mission: to find our mom a birthday gift. After an hour or so of no luck, we decided to split our efforts and go to different…
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Tik Tok Takeover
“Tik Tok is the first thing that’s actually made me feel old,” a friend recently said to me, and I couldn’t help but agree. In the two years since its release, Tik Tok has become a viral sensation. It was the third-most downloaded app of 2019, surpassing Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and Snapchat. Vox called it…
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Boomers’ Biggest Fear on Climate: Our Sincerity
In a coming-together of the world’s political and business leaders, the most recent World Economic Forum focused on climate change and sustainability, topics which not all attendees considered worthwhile to discuss. Although 17-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg called for adherence to commitments made under the Paris Agreement, condemned the elites’ pattern of empty promises to…
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The EU Green Deal Lacks Eastern Support
The European Union’s Green Deal, which is the product of the European Commission’s President Ursula von der Leyen, has the goal of making all of Europe carbon-neutral by 2050, entailing a net-zero carbon footprint, meaning that carbon emissions and carbon removal combine to equal zero. The Green Deal has another goal: to encourage sustainable development…
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Grey Rainforest, Concrete Jungle
Walking along the dirt footpath, I watched a family of white spotted deer feeding on the leaves of a rosewood tree. A pair of rhesus macaques quietly dart between their toes leaping onto a nearby branch and quickly darting up a neem tree. A trio of Hanuman langurs rests on a pile of hay picking…
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What Magenta Tells Us About Political Interpretation
What is a color? If answering pragmatically, one might claim that a color is the wavelength it occupies on the visible spectrum of light. But while this interpretation easily accommodates colors like red and violet, which are perceived respectively at about 700 and 400 nanometers, other colors simply do not appear on the visible light…
