$18-A-Pack Cigarettes? Bring 'Em On
Kings of Leon's set at Chicago's Lollapalooza music festival earlier this month was stunning, but standing in the audience, I was most struck by the guy periodically scampering across the stage whose job seemed to be "cigarette man." Every few minutes cigarette man would appear mid-song, make his way to drummer Nathan Followill with a cigarette in his hand, and carefully bring it to the lips of the musician long enough for a good drag and smoky exhale. Those who weren't lucky enough to be standing as close to the stage as I was were able to watch in colorful detail as Big Tobacco ...
Li-Ann Thio and NYU Confront 'Academic Freedom'
How much should an academic institution sacrifice in the name of lively debate? The instinctive answer, it seems, is pretty much everything. Don't the foundations of academia rely on intellectual discussion, most often fueled by opposing viewpoints? How can true growth be fostered when students and faculty are only exposed to a singular world view? And yet, mustn't this expectation of academic freedom have some limit? New York University School of Law has recently been forced to confront these longstanding questions. ...
Lessons Learned From the NYC Gay Pride Parade
"This younger generation takes itself very seriously," the announcer proclaimed over the crowd assembled at Fifth Avenue and Eighth Street in Greenwich Village to watch the annual NYC Gay Pride Parade on June 28. I wasn't sure what to make of the comment. Sure, on the one hand, I watched teenagers in Speedos with glittered hair do backflips down Fifth Avenue. But on the other, some of my friends' unexpected and thought-provoking comments from earlier that day still rang in my ears. My friends would not be attending the march, they told me. "There's no pride in that," they'd said, referring ...
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