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CATEGORY

Columns

A Yes to Life: Part I

Avatar: The Last Airbender became the drama that I was living my life through.

The Endowment is Not the Issue

Complaints about Harvard's massive endowment are common, but that ire is misdirected; a shift in focus would better actualize any changes student activists want.

In Pursuit of a Childlike Ideal

ATLA’s childlike ideal shows us a model for returning to our original enlightenment. It shows us that we can be less like an arrow, and more like Sokka’s boomerang — we can finally embark home, to the child hero already waiting within us.

Spongebob, The Alternative, and The Art of Queer Failure

Spongebob serves paradoxically as a figure of queer disruption, an embrace of radical love and queered innocence, even in its commodified stat – not because of its independence from its means of production, but the consciousness of its fantasies.

Ending Illegal Logging Means Corporate Accountability

Until multinational corporations are held accountable for their crimes, illegal logging will continue to devastate forests, threaten indigenous people, and make overcoming the climate crisis ever more difficult.

The Appropriation of Avatar

American culture likes to identify its heroes and villains; Avatar the Last Airbender creators Koniezko and DiMartino are neither. For me, they are not “canceled.” But contrary to public worship, their work bears harm too.

The Limits of Solidarity

Activists should not present their goals as a necessarily conjoined front that can potentially undermine their case without tactful messaging, and solidarity can quickly become stifling if it is used to shame people into supporting a cause rather than inspiring them. 

Reclaiming the Built Environment

To strike a better balance between driving and living, cities and towns must commit themselves to human-oriented planning and the urban design to support it.

Can a Woman Win the Presidency?

To combat the sexism that stands between women and the presidency, we must encourage women to run for office and vote for the women we believe in, so that it becomes normal to see a woman on the campaign trail — and, hopefully, in the White House.

The Climate-Corruption Connection

Both grand corruption and the climate crisis demand an international sea-change, and we will not be able to solve one without addressing the other.