It has been nearly a year since I submitted my last post as a staff member to the Consider blog, and since then I’ve graduated from college and have been lucky enough to go off to study in France for a year on a Fulbright grant.  As Wonderful as that is, it’s often easy to feel far [...]

If anything deserves a moment of reflection after Tuesday’s election, it’s not Obama’s win, but Romney’s loss, and what it will mean for the future of the Republican Party. And if anything surprised you about Tuesday’s election, I hope it wasn’t President Obama’s reelection. Because the polls were clear. Call me crazy, but unlike many [...]

It feels like we’ve been talking about this election for so long it’s almost hard to believe the day is finally upon us. Within 24 hours we will (hopefully) know which man will be running our country for the next four years. And then we can all finally stop talking about it. Right? Wrong. But [...]

I consider myself to be rather confrontational, as I really do enjoy a good argument on a topic I’m interested in. Recently, however, I have found myself holding my tongue nearly everywhere I go, regardless of who may be around to listen. Right around this time every four years, everyone becomes an expert on everything political. I find myself [...]

As I turned down South U to head to Landmark apartments, I tried to dismiss the pessimistic thought in my head: “This wasn’t going to end well.” It was Wednesday night last week and I was about to go over my friend Michael’s apartment to bake brownies in his sleak, modern kitchen while watching the [...]

America has a terminal case of hubris.  Yes, we were one of the first, if not the first, countries to guarantee freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of religion, freedom to protest, as well as many other paradigm-shifting rights. It’s possible that without us, the outcome of World War II may not have been the [...]