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Jul 21, 2019

U.S. Women’s Soccer is Unwatchable

Four years ago, I watched Carly Lloyd and the United States Women’s National Soccer Team (USWNT)…

Jay Rodriguez in Back To Normal

Oct 13, 2018

Anthony Bourdain and the World of Yesterday

I was a fan of Anthony Bourdain’s TV show, Parts Unknown. The show was an appealing…

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Jay Rodriguez in Back To Normal

Sep 13, 2018

Politicizing Sports is a Bad Idea

In 2016, following a spate of police violence against black men, Colin Kaepernick, the backup quarterback of the National Football League’s San Francisco 49ers, started kneeling during the national anthem before games. When asked for his reasons, Kaepernick said:

Jay Rodriguez in Back To Normal

Jan 10, 2019

Netflix is worse than Trump

A few months ago, Jamal Kashoggi, a Saudi Arabian journalist and palace insider with a complicated relationship to the Saudi royal family, entered an embassy in Turkey and never left. It didn’t take take long for the world to discover that Kashoggi, who had been publicly critical of Saudi Crown…

Jay Rodriguez in Back To Normal

Aug 12, 2017

Intellectuals and the Libertarian and Conservative Split

In Samarth’s post, he wrote that a perceived lack of intellectualism in the Republican party may be responsible for some of our polarized national politics. Republicans seem to be anti-intellectual and don’t want to discuss ideas…

Samarth Bhaskar in Back To Normal

Aug 24, 2019

Morality and public policy

A few days ago, on a weekend morning run through Brooklyn, I listened to a podcast conversation between Tyler…

Jay Rodriguez in Back To Normal

Sep 29, 2019

Hemp is already legal, Kristi.

Earlier this month, South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem published an article which appeared in the Wall…

Samarth Bhaskar in Back To Normal

Mar 5, 2019

Exactly how much does race matter?

Race and racism have been constant features of our news cycle for years now. The latest incidents…

Samarth Bhaskar in Back To Normal

Jun 18, 2018

Is there such a thing as modern class consciousness?

Two recent articles make the case that there’s a new class war afoot, one that we aren’t talking about in clear enough terms.

An essay in The Atlantic, by Matthew Stewart, describes the new aristocracy, the 9.9%…

Jay Rodriguez in Back To Normal

Jun 12, 2019

No one cares about centrism

The ideological center of Western politics is like a ghost town — no one lives there, and the few people who…

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