Ever since the events surrounding Masterpiece Cakeshop Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission came into the public eye in 2012, it has been a hot-button issue when discussing LGBTQ rights.  Oral arguments...

As someone who grew up in an evangelical church for the majority of my life, I can attest to the strides that the church has made to make Christianity more modern, tech savvy, and even trendy. When church...

You wouldn’t hire a chemist to teach an English composition class educating the next generation, nor would you want an English major working in a chemistry lab to develop the products that’ll end up...

One of the most vivid memories I have, one that I replay time and time again in my head, is of leaving the site of my first sexual encounter. As I entered the car weak and confused, I told the boy driving...

By now, most University of Alabama students, and many people besides them, have seen the appalling racist rants of Harley Barber, a girl who was an enrolled student and member of the Alpha Phi sorority...

The new year saw the implementation of California’s legalization of recreational marijuana. California was the fifth state to have done so, following Colorado, Washington, Oregon, and Alaska. News reports...

 By now, odds are that you’ve heard about The Room. Endearingly referred to as “the best worst movie ever made”, the decade-old film recently inspired the James Franco-directed, Golden Globe nominated...

Politics and sports are no longer separate entities. Now more than ever, athletes are using their platforms to address issues that they feel passionately about. Football players, specifically, have used...

Conservative writers are disappearing. Outside the narrow confines of Fox News and Breitbart, hardly worthy arbiters of philosophy, conservative intellectuals are becoming increasingly absent from mainstream...

Free speech: two words that are a cornerstone of our democracy. Where would we be without free speech? There would be no protests, no internet, no outspoken opposition to the powers-that-be. It’s right...

For decades since the Vietnam War, college campuses have been at the heart of many of the debates around free speech that have wracked our country. Full of young, impassioned intellectuals, campuses are...

During the Obama administration, the use of a nativity scene depicting the birth of Jesus was banned from the White House grounds. However, our current president believes that bringing back the tradition...