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(04/23/24 4:00am)
As tensions run high and finals loom on the horizon, some students will begin to reach their breaking point. Allow me to speak of something many of us find deeply paradoxically frustrating, but may not quite have the words for: that is how unsatisfying simple answers are. Still, I believe it may be helpful, in its own way, for us to be fully aware of its simplistic nature.
(04/09/24 4:00am)
To be evil is a tricky subject. Most certainly, to be malicious would be a qualifier, but that is not what I speak of here. Rather, to be evil is to be immoral: to violate and inhibit an inherent goodness. And how could smothering someone’s humanity be anything other than that? Worse yet, to pressure people into doing so by their own coerced volition is nothing more than cruel deceit. Yet there could be no other way, right? Everyone I have ever spoken to that knows anything about the corporate world has cited LinkedIn as essential. It is simply what must be done. Part of our existence. Divinely bestowed. That’s just the way it is.
(03/26/24 4:00am)
Nigh two years ago, I entered the club fair as a first-year without many expectations. Certainly, I had high hopes, but as it was my first time interacting with the greater student community of Notre Dame, I had no particular picture in mind. Despite being in my same 2026 class, there were people who clearly were intimately acquainted with the university and its student groups. There were those who had dreamed their entire lives to come here and knew precisely what they wanted. I was not one of them. I was lost. Excitedly so, but lost nevertheless. I merely looked forward to finding something, anything to belong to.
(03/05/24 5:01am)
Over 30,000 corpses.
(02/20/24 5:12am)
A snowstorm ravaged the land.
(02/06/24 5:06am)
Breathsick.
(01/24/24 4:07pm)
Morality is a rather strange thing.
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(09/14/22 4:05am)
Juan Manuel Santos, the former president of Colombia and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, delivered the annual Hesburgh Lecture in Ethics and Public Policy on Tuesday evening, discussing unconventional methods of peacebuilding in the world today. Santos is a distinguished policy fellow with the Keough School of Global Affairs, where he is co-teaching a master level course.
(09/28/22 4:05am)
We, as human beings, have had the fortune (or misfortune, for some) to interact with one another in matters of the mind and the heart since the beginning of time. As social creatures, we must rely on one another to share this spinning ball of flaming rock and cooperate to a certain degree to survive. However, not all cooperation is created equal, and I would like to propose rethinking the manner in which one cooperates. At times, helping is not helpful. Not simply because of the possible ineffectiveness of the action, but because the very concept of helping is not helpful. Even those with the best intentions can and do commit the repeated mistake of falling victim to the Helping Paradox.
(10/03/22 6:29am)
Our brains are but wonderful machines. This term is no exaggeration by any extent of the imagination, for they have been fine-tuned through millions of years of evolution into the survival powerhouses we know and love so dearly. They are, through constant innovation, quite literally the line between life and death and as such have allowed us to become the (self-declared) rulers of this world.
(10/27/22 4:53am)
When one takes upon themselves the challenge of imagining the wisest person to have ever lived, attributes such as empathy, kindness and a willingness to forgive are traits bound to define such an idealized sage. This is due to the fact that the more one engages with the human experience, the more likely one is to comprehend —perhaps even relate — to their fellows. A simple act such as an attempt to see a foreign worldview with a gentle, nonjudgemental gaze could be one of the most human things to do. A silent recognition of the inherent humanity of them all and how, despite it all, they are of the same value once the day comes to a close.
(11/07/22 5:19am)
Once upon a time, two brothers lived in the Cult of the Line in the Sand.
(12/02/22 5:06am)
There is something uniquely shallow about the way we have begun engaging in debate and it is particularly vexing for any person in possession of their complete senses.