Spring is a favorite season of many Americans; as winter finally begins to fade away, green replaces brown, and favorite foods come back into grocery stores and farmer’s markets. Americans welcome spring with celebrations like Easter, Holi, the Spring Equinox, Songkran, Passover, and Nowruz. But, what really unites us all in springtime is much less […]
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What Gene-editing in China Reveals About Progress and Risk
On November 25, 2018, a Chinese researcher by the name of He Jiankui released a video of himself detailing the process through which he edited the genes of a set of twin girls. Against the backdrop of various scientific instruments and with a disarming smile, He reveals how his lab deleted the CCR5 gene in […]
The Term-inator: The Case for and Against Xi Jinping’s Indefinite Rule
RESOLVED: The People’s Republic of China should establish a presidential limit of three terms. Affirmative Constructive Speech (Sunny Malhotra) Having no term limits is detrimental for the future of the Chinese population and government. Xi Jinping’s abolishment of term limits is already taking course in the increased censorship of the people. BBC noted Sina Weibo, a […]
Bringing Down the House
If the Greek fraternity system is molding the leaders of tomorrow, then tomorrow is going to look an awful lot like the past. Modern American society has been at war with backwards “isms”, including exclusivism, sexism, and racism. We fight these wrongs in the name of progress. We rightly champion the American values of merit, […]