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The Crimson White

All content by Chandler Gory
Democracies need journalists

Democracies need journalists

Chandler Gory, Contributing Writer October 17, 2018
According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, 67 journalists and media workers have been killed in 2018. Khashoggi makes 68.
Lawmakers should be honest all of the time

Lawmakers should be honest all of the time

Chandler Gory November 2, 2017

Members of Congress spend half their time on Capitol Hill squabbling with their colleagues and pretending to get things done. They spend the other half schmoozing with donors as they grovel for money to...

Trump is dangerous for the first amendment

Trump is dangerous for the first amendment

Chandler Gory October 16, 2017

I have a small copy of the Constitution that I keep on my bookshelf. I don’t open it up very often – there’s really no need to – but it’s nice to know that it’s there.  I wouldn’t call myself...

Textbooks fill backpacks but empty wallets

Textbooks fill backpacks but empty wallets

Chandler Gory September 28, 2017

If there is one thing that college students hate more than staying up late reading textbooks, it’s taking their wallets out to pay for them. The American textbook industry has dominated the marketplace...

American media must be less partisan

American media must be less partisan

Chandler Gory June 15, 2017

The media: it is a mammoth institution—the great gatekeeper of American democracy. Like it or not, the American people rely on the news media for the proper dissemination of information. At a time when...

Congress should work for us

Congress should work for us

Chandler Gory March 28, 2017

Republicans have been frantically trying to whip votes over the past couple of weeks. In their mad dash to smite the Democrats and throw out Obamacare, they constructed an abomination of a healthcare bill...

Presidential vacations don't matter

Presidential vacations don't matter

Chandler Gory February 28, 2017

Presidents like to take vacations. It’s a simple fact that we should all accept. Woodrow Wilson played around 1,200 rounds of golf during his less than 3,000 days in office; Dwight Eisenhower played...

We need the media in the age of Trump

We need the media in the age of Trump

Chandler Gory February 17, 2017

Donald Trump is a product of the entertainment media. Long before he was president, he mastered the art of packaging and presenting himself to the world. He literally built himself an empire and created...

Americans should learn to accept atheism

Americans should learn to accept atheism

Chandler Gory October 31, 2016

I’m sitting in my western civilization class, watching my 
professor pace the front of the room. He’s talking fast, using big hand motions to act out a scene 
from history.“Now you guys all know...

Negative ads are a necessary evil

Negative ads are a necessary evil

Chandler Gory September 20, 2016

American politics has always been full of backroom deals, dirty money changing hands, smoke filled rooms, a wink here, a nod there. It’s intriguing, exciting and scandalous. There are whole TV shows...

“No Fly, No Buy” is a sensible rule

Chandler Gory June 29, 2016

The house I grew up in sat on the main road of our neighborhood, and my bedroom faced the street. At night, I would lay awake listening to the whooshing of the passing cars, watching their headlights pass...

Religion not a reason to discriminate

Chandler Gory June 15, 2016

Who needs a time machine when you can read the news or scroll through some Facebook comments and find yourself smack dab in the 1950s? Ah the sweet smell of racism, homophobia, transphobia, islamophobia,...