Dec 28, 20204 Thought-Provoking and Enjoyable Netflix Shows For Your Holiday SeasonPerhaps 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…Netflix5 min readNetflix5 min read
Jul 30, 2019(Why) American Discourse is on Life Support and We Can Resuscitate ItAmerica’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…Politics6 min readPolitics6 min read
Jul 30, 2019Goodbye Mr. BondIt’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 Bond7 min readJames Bond7 min read
Jul 22, 2019What College Means For Generation ZIn 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…College7 min readCollege7 min read
Jul 16, 2019A Game For Horrible PeopleMy 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…Fiction9 min readFiction9 min read
Apr 1, 2019Christchurch: A Collective Crime & A Call For Collective ActionA 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…Culture9 min readCulture9 min read
Nov 20, 2018American 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…Disparities4 min readDisparities4 min read
Aug 11, 2018Why We Feel Shame & How To Help ItOne 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…Life4 min readLife4 min read
Aug 10, 2018Reflection on the Florida School ShootingIn 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 Violence3 min readGun Violence3 min read
Aug 7, 2018The 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…Journalism2 min readJournalism2 min read
