by Kevin Nugent/Love and Rage Since announcing last spring, the Sanders campaign has sparked a fierce debate on the left regarding Sanders’ viability as a candidate, his left-wing credibility, and the distance between himself and the establishment party machinery. Quasi-enthusiastic Clinton supporters aside, the left is split between […]
by Kevin Nugent/Love and Rage Terrorists affiliated with ISIS struck Paris over the weekend, killing at least 129 people and injuring hundreds more. The world recoiled in horror and roundly condemned the attacks. The warm sentiments directed toward France from around the world, as well as the outcry […]
by Kevin Nugent/Love and Rage Earlier this year, I accepted a position teaching English to elementary school students in the countryside of South Korea. Teaching ESL in Asia is increasingly said to be the “student loan repayment program” for my generation, the first “global” generation. As someone from […]
by Kevin Nugent/Love and Rage On a warm July night in 2013, a locomotive carrying Bakken formation crude oil sat idle on a slight grade in Farnham, Quebec, after having arrived from its point of origin of New Town, North Dakota. A fire broke out on the unmanned […]
by Kevin Nugent/Love and Rage In the February of 1926, a Russian-born writer arrived in New York City after fleeing oppression and persecution in the Soviet Union. Under the freshly minted name Ayn Rand, this playwright, thinker and novelist would go on to become a celebrated best-selling author, […]
by Kevin Nugent/Love and Rage In a recent interview with Chuck Todd of MSNBC, Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson was asked if he felt a Muslim should serve as president of the United States. He answered that Islam is inconsistent with American ideals, and that he therefore […]
by Kevin Nugent/Love and Rage Yesterday, my alma mater Utica College announced it would be dropping the cost of tuition from $34,466 per year to $19,996, a drop in price of about 42%. According to UC President Todd Hutton, the college is undertaking this policy in order to […]
by Kevin Nugent/Love and Rage “Even if all the [campaign] dollars were honestly contributed and honestly spent, they would still have a corrupting influence on our politics. For the vast sums now required for political campaigns raise the unholy specter that politics in the future will be an […]
by Kevin Nugent/Love and Rage In a 2002 episode of the Simpsons, Homer exclaimed, “Canada? Why should we leave America to visit America Junior?” Canada is sometimes the butt of this quasi-derogatory joke for the perception that it copies the United States’ economic and political cultures. After living […]
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