Liam Riley PO ‘26 discusses the prescription of psychiatric drugs in the U.S. He discusses the neurochemical model and how it can be a damaging way of looking at the world.
Opinions
OPINION: We must associate the IDF with the evil that we know
If we truly believe the moral lessons history has taught us about evil, why do we fail to recognize — and reject — the same patterns unfolding today in Israel?
OPINION: Why aren’t college kids striking anymore?
American college students have a history of communicating demands to our government through protests and strikes. But how come we aren’t seeing very many campus strikes en masse in response to recent actions by this presidential administration that disregard our well-being?
OPINION: Jestermaxx before it’s too late
It is time that looksmaxxing is recognized for what it is: a repackaging of radicalism. It mimics ideologies implemented by totalitarian leaders, making self-improvement deeply intertwined with militant obedience, purification and traditionalism.
OPINION: In defense of the Mrs. Degree
“Attending college allows one to develop critical thinking skills and make more informed life decisions, and those decisions compound inside a family,” writes Grace Rutherford PO ‘28. “A woman’s choice to pursue motherhood on her own terms should be recognized as a legitimate expression of empowerment, not a retreat from it.”
OPINION: James Talarico presents a winning strategy to progressives nationwide
“The success of a progressive like James Talarico in the Texas election would bring great hope to many other regions in the United States and ultimately prove that America can overcome its present conservative challenges,” writes Rafael Hernandez Guerrero PZ ‘29. “Candidates like James Talarico present a unique chance for progressives to help Democrats gain the upper hand in Congress and prove themselves as representative of working class interests by actually working to reduce the political power wielded by billionaires if they win seats this upcoming election season.”
OPINION: Cooking from scratch won’t save people on SNAP
“From-scratch influencers and right-wing politicians are, of course, not the same people. They operate on entirely different playing fields, yet both groups perpetuate an oversimplified notion of what it takes to eat in ways they deem acceptable and necessary,” writes Zara Seldon PO ‘29. “No, most people do not have enough time or enough money to “just make fresh bread a few times a week.” Yes, launching a campaign founded on the assumption that Americans in poverty could “just eat healthy” if they tried is unreasonable.”
OPINION: In an era of disorder, our cities are still too perfect
“Lovable neighborhoods don’t get built anymore, only appearing when our social fabric breaks down. But it’s not because we don’t know how to build them anymore,” Nicholas Steinman CMC ’28 writes. “If we reform our byzantine municipal regulations to make it cost-effective for more people to build more varied buildings again, and if we move past our misguided aspiration to create ‘efficient’ urban areas, we can once again build the progress we need in our cities without closing them off to humanity.”
OPINION: What Fred Hampton can teach us about coalition-building
“If we are to challenge the elites, organization starts at the smallest scale,” Rafael Hernandez Guerrero PZ ’29 writes. “In reaction to a mistrust of the democratic process at the federal level, we must involve ourselves in a politics in which we can have immediate impact — i.e. the politics at the local level.”
OPINION: It’s your civic responsibility to find empowerment in political grief
“We have no reason to trust anything above our individuality, no reason to hear any organization out or trust that any institution has good faith,” writes Celeste Cariker PZ ‘28. “But still, we have a responsibility to ourselves and the progress we want to see in this nation to be resilient in the face of disappointment, to compose ourselves for the sake of organization and lead lives of joy as a mode of resistance.”