It’s not a problem that America has grown more divided — the problem is that America has grown worse at respecting why division exists and better at naively hoping for agreement without defining a procedure for nourishing its precursors: understanding, empathy, and humility.
China, Russia, France, the United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar follow close behind the United States, amassing 1499, 1498, 1497, 1496, 1495, and 1494 points respectively.
Many wealthy students feel the need to seem less wealthy, especially when in financially diverse environments — but Canada Goose continues to saturate Harvard’s winter closet. How do we explain this discrepancy?
Through Cover-Up, we hope to provide a space for the conversations that those in power try to avoid and challenge the narratives we believe and perpetuate about government, business, society, and ourselves.
Even now, as I frenetically fumble with the keyboard, typing what I’m sure will turn out to be a directionless flow of consciousness, I still find it difficult: difficult to decide that what I’m writing is worth an initiation, let alone a conclusion.
This is the present we have picked. A present in which the American way becomes the mere skill of pretending that there is nothing to grieve even as we mourn.
There is nothing the Americans do better than competing, but this occasionally productive competition has taken on a more toxic and macabre character in the form of the oppression olympics, the competition for the title of “most oppressed.”
Africa's volatile and plateauing growth rates indicate that long-term economic development remains a distant aspiration. Such dismal trends beg the question: why has Africa fallen so far behind?
