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I Only Ride Xe Honda

Another narrative about transportation in a foreign country.

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Licking Popes is Icky

Let me tell you a story—not too many months ago, a creative writing professor gave me some “truth hurts, kiddo,” criticism.

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When Patton Threw Her Hat In

A prominent alumna by the name of Susan Patton / Sized up the campus dialogue and chose to throw her hat in.

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Dadvertising

Sitting down to watch last week’s Super Bowl XLIX, I thought I knew what to expect from an event the 49th of its kind: footballs on the field, fantasies in the commercials. From advertisements aimed at male audiences, I was accustomed to
hot babes, racecars and rock stars. What I found, instead, unsettled me.

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Mom’s (Extra-Chunky!) Bolognese

A family heirloom recipe of zero generations.

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Left Swipe Smoking?

Strategic campaigns have sold cigarettes to marginalized individuals as a means of rejecting the culture that cast them out.

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Her Torso or Addie

Like a length of string, like a lily of a day a firm, fragile thing. A spring stuck in play; or, the spring that can begin halfway to halfway The fixed compass pin where every line and degree meet their … Read More

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Shakes On a Plane

Some people grapple with their own mortality through meditation, or mountain climbing, or making a pilgrimage to some lost, crumbling temple full of monks. Some do it because they’ve just received a diagnosis of terminal illness or reached their 80th birthday. I just have to step onto a 737.

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Deconstructing the Drug War

Our position is based on a prejudice in favor of personal freedom: it is most in keeping with human dignity that all things be permissible unless a compelling argument can be made to forbid them. We believe that the burden of proof lies not with us, but with those who wish to keep drugs illegal; it is their job to explain why drug prohibition should be continued. By derailing some of the most common justifications for present drug policy, I hope to illustrate that the Drug War is destructive and wholly unjustified.

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Political Figures

A meditation on political personalities and the importance of policy.

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Online Obligations

Trying to return what wasn’t ordered.

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At Your Service

NW: On the topic of religious holidays: Yom Kippur, Day of Atonement. For the Princeton students, is there anything you must atone for?

[Pregnant pause]

JW: Caring too much.

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