Because yesterday's executive order signals a monumental change in US policy, nay, identity. Because many are attacking the decision to read George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, which has surged in popularity in recent days. Because the ideologies popping up lately are not always easy to talk about. Every person north of 16 with access to an internet connection has heard the … Continue reading Individual Rebellions
Month: January 2017
Greed Is Not Good
It's a now-normal 21st-century anxiety, but it wasn't always like this. Perhaps it was my wide-eyed, dangerously-sincere reading of Don DeLillo's novel Mao II as a high school senior that did me in, but I've always harbored an uneasy fascination with cult of personality figures. Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, even Steve Jobs, Jon Gruden, Elon Musk. It's a … Continue reading Greed Is Not Good
MOOC Anxieties
The next step in my career path requires me to be able to demonstrate reading-level proficiently in a foreign language. I won't get into specifics, but due to this requirement I've decided to make it my New Year's resolution for 2017 to, at the very minimum, increase my working knowledge and vocabulary within the sea of … Continue reading MOOC Anxieties
