Inquiry
The Case for Studying Abroad in Cuba
I remember being afraid of two things as I left Cuba: that the language would leave me and that, as I attempted to convey the last four months to people gnawing at the bit for answers to the questions about this mythical place, I would fail to do the island justice.
It Really Is That Phone
My worst and most recent cycle of addiction was a 3.5 hour Instagram binge. So, I quit.
It’s All Real Life
By viewing our online and offline lives as separate from each other, we risk losing our true sense of self.
Who’s Got Queer Cinema?
There’s some unspeakable beauty — the existence of gay relationships, and their existence as high art — in “Queer” and “Call Me By Your Name.” Films like these romanticize this queer becoming. For the lonely, closeted teen, they offer a potential queerness that is inheritable, learnable, engageable.
Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
As we talked about relationships within the dorms, a common — and surprising — theme began to surface among the students who knew their neighbors best: Shared hallway bathrooms.
A Letter to Letters
Letters have long departed as a primary mode of communication. So when we write and receive them today, what exactly do they represent to us?
Dear Dairy
Humans have always used foods and herbs as traditional remedies for sickness, physical injuries, and mental ailments. Yet the size and scale of milk consumption go beyond a homemade solution. And so, one wonders, why?
Reminder: Your Spring Break Is in Someone Else's Home
When we exoticize a place, we treat it differently than we would treat our own homes. We abide by different rules — if any at all — than we would abide by at home. And, oddly, we often grant ourselves an uncanny kind of newfound freedom.
On Digis and Dispos
Is the insistence of using these devices performative? Or is it an attempt to savor the moment and enjoy the little things in such a fast-paced world?
Everybody’s Gay
From Annenberg to Instagram, queerness becomes an object of close-reading, our eyes trained on the if of inner identity.
Lunchbox Memories
There’s something profoundly appealing about watching the creation of food and dishes — the centerpieces of our culture and humanity — coupled with stories that aren’t as often shown in the media.
Bad Bunny’s Album is Talking About Us, Whether You Like It or Not
Bad Bunny’s album is not just about large-scale contributors to cultural degradation in Puerto Rico. It is also about how we, as individuals, conceptualize the Caribbean.
Critique of Pure Criticism
From rhapsode to New Yorker critic, why are we so bad at defending the humanities?
Chance Encounters: Self-Checkout, Bill Gates, and the Loss of Shared Humanity
In and of itself, the loss of cashiers seems insignificant. Self-driving cars and pre-order systems at first feel innocuous, or even beneficial. But they add to a larger trend of turning towards our screens and away from one another.