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    • Please Don’t Make Me Go Back to the Office

      I think I forgot how to tie a tie. In 2020, WFH joined lol and omg on the short list of three letter abbreviations common enough to have its own entry on Dictionary.com. As workplaces …

    • The Reign of Barstool Sports

      The story behind the company that can’t be canceled. Barstool Sports has an incredible amount of power over young people, especially young men. A sports media platform that started as a Boston paper handed out …

    • The Books I Read in 2020

      Having fun/isn’t hard/when you’ve got/a library card As I move away from the academic space, I am working to rediscover reading for pleasure. I enjoyed reading from a young age – my mother likes to …

    • Boarding Groups and the War on Class Solidarity

      Airlines force you to choose between checking your baggage and betraying your fellow man. Typically, the holiday season is the busiest time of the year for airlines. Anyone who has tried to book a flight …

    • Basketball Fandom at a Football School

      An interview with Joey Dwyer of Breaking Down Brey’s Boys. Based on the University of Notre Dame’s brand, it is only natural to assume that I am a football fan first, with all other athletic …

    • Quitting

      A post about economics and quitting that never mentions the sunk cost fallacy. From a young age, my parents instilled in me a strong resistance to quitting things. My siblings and I were raised to …

    • The Importance of Public Transit

      An ode to Amtrak. Joe Biden, our President-Elect, estimates he has ridden more than two million miles on Amtrak trains in his life. As a fellow Amtrak rider, some of my journeys felt like they …

    • Syracuse’s Racist Highway

      And the unexpected benefits of listening to local talk radio. One of the small things I noticed when I moved to California was how much people here love to talk about the highway. The wide-open …

    • The Year from Hell for Progressive Alumni

      Notre Dame‘s 2020 Year in Review With less than a month left in 2020, I’ve been thinking a lot about end of the year lists. I love lists but I especially love the lists we …

    • SSSS

      Last minute plane tickets, the military-industrial complex, and you. Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about travel. I first left the United States of America in 2018, when I visited Colombia. That trip only affirmed …