What makes a good song? Or more specifically, since I am focusing on lyricism, what makes a song well-written? Obviously, there are artists—like Bob Dylan—who immediately spring to mind when one mentions...

Even though the major political parties will not convene to formally nominate their standard-bearer for another year, many pundits have already declared that 2024 will be a repeat match-up of the 2020...

Every high school student applying to college feels the inevitable stress of coming up with a personal essay, which prestigious universities give just as much weight to as standardized testing, grade-point...

The unfortunate truth about the human race: It’s prone to decay. Every time a politician retires or, more often, dies, the loss of their sagacity forces the nation to find the next oldest one as their...

Throughout the past seven columns, we have discussed important topics surrounding the conversation of animal rights. From animal sentience to the Cambridge fur ban to the convenience of eating plants,...

Welcome, everyone, to my last column. Over the course of my time reflecting on my adolescence through this column, I have had the unique opportunity to share pieces of myself with all of you. Now that...

If you had told me five years ago beans and tofu would be my favorite foods, I would have said you were crazy. But here I am today, consuming beans and tofu every day. I stopped eating meat around ten...

“I’m not going to eat meat anymore,” I told my mom in a taxi on our way to the airport. “It’s not fair to the animals.” A few days before this declaration, I had discovered an undercover...