Stephen Edwards

In a few short weeks, the class of 2014 will be walking across the stage at graduation, accepting their diplomas, and taking the first awkward steps into adult life.

Diversity in higher education seems to be something everybody wants. At Furman, we are surrounded by committees, student organizations, and CLP speakers dedicated to making our school a more diverse place. But what kind of diversity do these organizations mean, exactly?

The practice of hydraulic fracturing, known colloquially as “fracking,” is too often the victim of unwarranted bad press.

President Obama has recently proposed that the federal minimum wage be raised to $10.10 an hour. It is unclear whether he is doing this in order to score a political victory that might overshadow the failure of Obamacare or out of a genuine concern for the working poor in America.

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has become, for many Americans, a tired issue. The law has been a flashpoint for national debate since the election of Barack Obama in 2008. No matter how tired we are of hearing about the law, it is important to remember what we were promised when it was passed in March of 2010.

Our generation has grown up with a very different set of ethics when it comes to consumption of cultural products like music, photographs, and movies. In our internet age, these commodities are instantly and freely available. As a result, we tend to value these items less.

Do you use Snapchat? I used to use the popular smart phone app. But after some careful thinking, I decided that it was harmful to my mental health.

How many times have you heard somebody say, “Amurrica!” in the past week? Did you ever consider that that little utterance has a disastrous impact on the country, that it signals the erosion of our national character into nihilist, Eurozone emptiness?

When a trial reaches the national prominence that Florida v. Zimmerman has attained, it loses any sense of fairness or justice. It becomes something other than a search for truth in a contest between prosecution and defense. At the national level, trials like this become entirely politicized.

Sequestration is a political show, a false crisis employed by the current administration to bring about its own particular political ends.