Posts by NICHOLAS WOOLDRIDGE
John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Today’s American Citizen
The following is an opinion contribution and reflects the author’s views alone. In just a few days, November 22nd will mark fifty-four years since the tragic assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy in Dallas, Texas. That horrific event remains today at the center of many American’s minds, riddled with its treachery, sorrow, and the ominous…
Read MoreA War Among Women
The following is an opinion contribution and reflects the author’s views alone. This article references a talk “Feminism & Planned Parenthood” given by Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life of America and mother of four. It occurred at Princeton University on November 6, 2017. Thousands of women marched in Washington D.C. last January clad in…
Read MoreTo Speak the Unspeakable
The following is an opinion contribution and reflects the author’s views alone. The irony is palpable—discussions about how to discuss are becoming heated and futile all at once. American universities are having an existential crisis on how to handle this contentious little phrase, “free speech”—a phrase that is either dragged through the mud or placed…
Read MoreWhy Politics?
When approaching the contemplation and discourse of politics, it is valuable to first consider why to invest thought in the process at all. There are millions of wonderful things in the world that would delight in the pleasure of our attention. Why is it, then, that we select this particular subject as one of the…
Read MoreWaking Up: The Not-So-Gentle Tech Giants
The following is an opinion contribution and reflects the author’s views alone. Recent events have shown that Facebook, Twitter, and the like are not the gentle giants that we often take them to be. The congressional hearings into these companies’ behavior should serve as a wake-up call to Americans who have regarded them as omniscient…
Read MoreTwo options. Analyze them and choose.
The following is an opinion contribution and reflects the author’s views alone. Imagine these two scenarios: There was once a country with the largest oil reserves in the world, where infrastructure, the health system, the entertainment world, the education, among others, was number 1 in its continent. Immigrants from throughout the world—Germans, Spanish, Italians, Lebanese,…
Read MoreReligious and Economic Freedom: Inseparable & Indispensable
The following is an opinion contribution and reflects the author’s views alone. Nearly four centuries ago, Francis Cooke was literally sailing for his life. In a 100-foot boat with over 130 other passengers, he spent five months at sea sailing from one side of the Atlantic to the other. Storms and severe sickness would not…
Read MoreBirth Control and Healthcare
The following is an opinion contribution and reflects the author’s views alone. “A man who bleeds from his genitals every month has a medical problem,” my philosophy professor once quipped while discussing Plato’s Meno, “yet a woman who bleeds every month is healthy.” While there is a unified concept of health, Plato argued, how it…
Read MoreEffecting a Permanent Iranian Denuclearization
The following is an opinion contribution and reflects the author’s views alone. In April 2015, the Obama administration and five other world powers reached an agreement with Iran to lift economic sanctions in exchange for reductions in the Iranian nuclear weapons program. Negotiating with the United States, Russia, China, France, Germany, and the United Kingdom,…
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