Today we at The Conversationalist are introducing a new weekly feature: The ConvoTracker. Each week a guest blogger will write about a contemporary topic which they think is important and explain why. This week we’re happy to have Emily Rutherford, a sophomore at Princeton majoring in History and...

I’ve been thinking about the power of the Internet to socially or politically organize. It’s a precarious matter. Internet activism can quickly fall into blank-stares and late night time-killing apathy. Lately, it seems my Facebook event calendar is a prolific spam box for College Democrats’ and...

Last week North Carolina Congressman Patrick McHenry proposed changing the face on the $50 bill from Ulysses S. Grant to Ronald Reagan. In an excellent op-ed this past Sunday, Princeton Historian Sean Wilentz argued (with due respect to Reagan) that Grant should stay the face of the $50 bill: RONALD...

How’s this for awkward: some lots of Microsoft employees use iPhones. It’s not that surprising if you think about it, the iPhone is the hottest phone out there. Techies like the ones who work at major software companies are going to be drooling over hardware like that, even if it wasn’t...

The forecast for the future of Texas education wasn’t looking good, but things have finally taken a turn for the worse: The Texas Board of Education on Friday approved a social studies curriculum that will put a conservative stamp on history and economics textbooks, stressing the superiority of...

Last week my Consider colleague Daniel Strauss wrote an intriguing post about the possibility that the Internet could be a human right someday.  Seems like a distant, utopian goal, right?  Well, it looks like the future may come sooner than we thought: The Federal Communications Commission is proposing...