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Dec 28, 2020

4 Thought-Provoking and Enjoyable Netflix Shows For Your Holiday Season

Perhaps more than any other previous year, Netflix binges have become a habitual staple of our lives akin to brushing your teeth and washing your hands. During a global pandemic, the escapism that entertainment provides has become even more valuable and certainly more utilized. Have you checked your screen-time usage…

Netflix

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4 Thought-Provoking and Enjoyable Netflix Shows For Your Holiday Season
4 Thought-Provoking and Enjoyable Netflix Shows For Your Holiday Season
Netflix

5 min read


Jul 30, 2019

(Why) American Discourse is on Life Support and We Can Resuscitate It

America’s current political climate is full of closed-mindedness and division, perhaps more so than any time in the nation’s history. Tribalism, the evil possibility of factions that James Madison outlines in Federalist №10, has reached a new height with groups denouncing the other as, at best, crazy, and at worst…

Politics

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(Why) American Discourse is on Life Support and We Can Resuscitate It
(Why) American Discourse is on Life Support and We Can Resuscitate It
Politics

6 min read


Jul 30, 2019

Goodbye Mr. Bond

It’s true. Lashana Lynch will be portraying the new Agent 007, with the “James Bond” acting in a retirement role. How you react to the news determines how closely you’ve been following the 57-year-old film series and how well you understand the actual character and its place within Cold War…

James Bond

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Goodbye Mr. Bond
Goodbye Mr. Bond
James Bond

7 min read


Jul 22, 2019

What College Means For Generation Z

In the last nine months, I have had 1,043 and one-half conversations about college. 387 people have asked me where I’ll be next fall — aunts, teachers, friends, people whom I don’t know but nonetheless follow me on Instagram, little league coaches, Chick-Fil-A employees (they insisted it was their pleasure…

College

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What College Means For The New Generation
What College Means For The New Generation
College

7 min read


Jul 16, 2019

A Game For Horrible People

My family played a card game two hours after we put grandma in the cold Oregon ground. To be specific, we played Cards Against Humanity — a party game for horrible people, as it says on the little black box. I think that’s a fair description — of my family…

Fiction

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A Game For Horrible People
A Game For Horrible People
Fiction

9 min read


Apr 1, 2019

Christchurch: A Collective Crime & A Call For Collective Action

A few years ago, I had the honor of attending a writer’s workshop led by Jane Unrue and Shahriar Mandanipour. Professor Unrue, director of Harvard’s Scholars-At-Risk program, and Mandanipour, perhaps the most accomplished Iranian writer of the 20th century, passed along many tips and lessons on the art of storytelling…

Culture

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Christchurch: A Collective Crime & A Call For Collective Action
Christchurch: A Collective Crime & A Call For Collective Action
Culture

9 min read


Nov 20, 2018

American Disparities

“Where’s the white wrapping paper?” yelled my mother, as she helped me finish wrapping the presents before my coach arrived. Every year, my team does a “Basketball-Christmas Giveback” where we take presents to underprivileged families in Austin, Texas. My coach arrived, I loaded the gifts into his van, and we…

Disparities

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American Disparities and How We Can Solve Them
American Disparities and How We Can Solve Them
Disparities

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Aug 11, 2018

Why We Feel Shame & How To Help It

One of the great problems in the world is also one of the most invisible, because — by its nature — it asks to be hidden and saps our ability to spot its symptoms. But to generalize grossly, few things so undermine human well-being as the sickness of shame. The…

Life

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Why We Feel Shame & How To Help It
Why We Feel Shame & How To Help It
Life

4 min read


Aug 10, 2018

Reflection on the Florida School Shooting

In the aftermath of the Florida shooting and many other shootings that have followed, many have demanded that the government solve the problem, whether that be through stricter gun control or mandating increased security measures. Whether consciously or unconsciously, we as a populous are in effect “putting the ball”…

Gun Violence

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Reflection on the Florida School Shooting
Reflection on the Florida School Shooting
Gun Violence

3 min read


Aug 7, 2018

The Real “Fake News”

To lay claim to any respectability or competence, we know that we must keep up with the news. That is why we have rigged the earth with satellites and created a legion of networks to inform us of every event to have unfolded in the last few moments. We even…

Journalism

2 min read

The Real “Fake News”
The Real “Fake News”
Journalism

2 min read

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R.A. Dewan is a writer and culture critic from Austin, Texas. Find out more about him at radewan.com

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