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    • 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 in late December or early January is familiar with fares double their normal price, security lines that stretch on for…

    • 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 programs falling behind as a distant afterthought. My strongest sports allegiance, however, is to Notre Dame men’s basketball. This dedicated…

    • 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 finish what we started, no matter how much we hated soccer practice or chess club. Young Testanis knew that once…

    • 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 lasted two million miles each way. In my time at Notre Dame, I considered myself very fortunate to have access…

    • 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 roads of California are so awe-inspiring that they merit a definite article whenever they are referred to by locals. “Take…

    • 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 get at the end of a calendar year. I will read a year end list about pretty much anything. Best…

    • 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 what I had known about myself since I was a little kid, playing with the LeapFrog globe my parents put…