Entries by dpogreba

Segregated Media in America

Farai Chideya, writing in The Nation, argues that American media is dangerously white and elite: When I was a kid, my family loved watching science fiction films and television shows. Some of them, from Star Trek to Soylent Green, featured a multiracial band of humans, plus various sentient life forms. But in other features—let’s say […]

Google Maps Reunion & Salman Rushdie

Google Maps to the rescue, as a Chinese man made his way home after being kidnapped 23 years earlier: A Chinese man has used Google maps to locate his family, 23 years after he was abducted. Luo Gang, who was kidnapped when he was just five years old, used the online tool to locate two […]

Debate Exam: Economic Philosophy

The Debate test over economic philosophy is tomorrow, Friday, May 17. It will cover the following philosophers: Karl Marx (Alienation, False Consciousness, Dialectical Materialism, Dictatorship of the Proletariat, Post-Communist State) Vladimir Lenin (Vanguard Party, War Communism, Democratic Centralism, Imperialism) Mao Zedong (Mass Mobilization, Constant Revolution, Peasant Revolt, Three Worlds) Adam Smith (Invisible Hand, Division of […]

AP Test Tomorrow!

You’re all absolutely prepared for the exam tomorrow. Get some rest and be refreshed tomorrow. You should all feel well-deserved and totally earned confidence as you approach the test tomorrow morning. As it often the case, our friend from the woods of Massachusetts said it best. Feel like a rooster in the morning tomorrow when […]