In my recent adventures in the series of tubes, I keep coming across the idea that risk is essential to a good life—that in order for a person to really live fully, they need to experience the possibility of losing the good things in their life.  I first ran into this idea while reading an [...]

This week alone, there have been five reports of attacks on Jewish centers at Indiana University. On Tuesday, a vandal threw a rock through the kitchen window of Chabad House Jewish Center on campus, and later that day through an apartment above the building. Another rock was thrown Saturday, the Jewish day of rest, into [...]

As UM student paying out-of-state tuition, I can empathize with those whose greatest criteria for college is cost. That is why it didn’t come as much of a surprise when I read that American students are flocking to the UK where tuition is considerably less expensive. Their government is much more involved and supportive in [...]

Ever since Wikileaks.org released its latest document dump, dubbed Cablegate, of purportedly over 250,000 classified clandestine documents, I’ve been trying to form a solid opinion on Wikileaks. It’s hard for me to fully get behind the idea, as Wikileaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange likes to say, that Wikileaks is interested only in revealing wrongdoing in extremely [...]

On Wednesday, November 24th, airline passenger Jason Rockwood stripped down to his underwear in the LaGuardia security line, protesting the revealing body scanners and intrusive pat-downs airport security now uses as means to fight terrorism. The 33-year-old declared, “The American people need to stand up for their rights and dignity and say, ‘I don’t feel [...]

Henry Farrell has a really good piece over at Crooked Timber on how the current Irish economic crisis underscores the paltry prospects of further European integration: ‘First, they have to get a majority vote in a referendum in Ireland. This is thanks to a legal ruling (the Crotty ruling) that Treaty texts which have constitutional [...]