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Stories and content by Alec Brandon

Oh boy2

By Alec Brandon / June 29, 2006
This is all extremly tenative, especially considering that the ruling was made ten minutes ago,

Minimum Wage9

By Alec Brandon / June 23, 2006
Despite the fact that we have a resident "expert" on the minimum wage, I think Paul Krugman got it ri

Quick Hits10

By Alec Brandon / June 16, 2006
Normally I'd write something for all of these, but I'd actually like to do something tonight, so inst

Obama has some fun with Colbert

By Alec Brandon / June 7, 2006

This is actually quite funny:Obama to Stephen Colbert: How'd Your Convention Speech Go?No, Really...I Must Have Missed It...Was it Good?WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) Tuesday released the...

Michelle Wie

By Alec Brandon / June 5, 2006
The media loves to hype any attempt by a female to outdo the men (just remember the hype surrounding

Darfur activists need to put up or shut up

By Alec Brandon / May 16, 2006
The genocide in Darfur has certainly become a hip cause in the U.S. It has succeeded in uniting some of Hollywood’s most liberal with the South’s most conservative evangelical Christians. Lately students have been throwing in their hats, calling on campuses to divest and demanding that the genocide stop. Many public intellectuals have dedicated their...

Thank god1

By Alec Brandon / May 2, 2006
This just might be my experience in dealing with the type of constituents that call into Congressiona

Housing Options: Shoreland Hall

By Alec Brandon / April 25, 2006
Since the 1920s, the Shoreland, a registered national landmark, has provided luxurious shelter to everyone from Al Capone and Elvis to its present, eclectic mix of U of C students. Part of the Shoreland’s charm is its unique room offerings. Residents can choose from a single, double, triple, quadruple, and the one quintuple in all...

Finally, an approach to organ donation better than complete apathy

By Alec Brandon / April 4, 2006
The state of organ donation is simply devastating in the United States. The present system, in which individuals are assumed not to be organ donors unless they denote otherwise, ends in the needless death of thousands simply because many are too lazy to go through the miniscule effort of becoming an organ donor (it is...

You’re not allowed to say that about Israel

By Alec Brandon / March 31, 2006
After a long spell of deep interest in Middle Eastern politics, I have grown weary of even thinking about the region, let alone discussing it with the ardent Zionists with whom I used to love arguing. Perhaps best exemplifying this feeling of futility is the irrational outrage over John Mearsheimer’s recent paper (co-authored with Stephen...

Summers coup is a failure for all

By Alec Brandon / March 7, 2006
Many U of C students loath Harvard. It is consistently ranked as one of the top colleges in the nation and universities in the world. It attracts some of the brightest faculty and students. Its endowment is nearly as large as Yale and Stanford’s combined. But the past year has shown that there is trouble...

America: Isolation leads only to decline

By Alec Brandon / February 23, 2006
During this year’s State of the Union address, President George Bush made a gratuitous number of references to “isolationists and protectionists.” At the time it seemed like he was merely building a straw man with which he could easily repeat the same points on the war on terror that he has made since 9/11. In...

Pay attention, America. Culture counts.

By Alec Brandon / February 7, 2006
It has been a rough couple of weeks for liberalism in the Middle East. Last week saw the rise to power of theocratic terrorists in the Palestinian Authority. This has been all but overshadowed by the baffling turn of events that has prompted the torching of European embassies in Syria and Lebanon, all over a...

Blaming Wal-Mart is counterproductive

By Alec Brandon / January 23, 2006
For some reason Wal-Mart has become a point of enormous contention in the United States. Wal-Mart has been furiously vilified by the left with books and movies. It has consistently been blamed for nearly every ill in the country, including the disappearance of town centers, the perceived stratification of wealth in the country, and the...

Want to liberate Cuba? End the Embargo.

By Alec Brandon / January 9, 2006
Luckily for the United States and the people of Cuba, Fidel Castro is mortal. Soon the dictator will enter his eighth decade of life. When he dies you can expect a rush of Cuban exiles presently in Miami to storm Havana to liberate their homeland. You can also expect Fidel’s brother and deputy, Raúl, to...

The Ghetto party is simply an insensitive act of the few

By Alec Brandon / November 7, 2005
By now, everyone has heard about the now-infamous “Ghetto” party. Of course there have been dozens of editorials written on the event, but I think all of them have missed the real crux of this issue. All seem to focus on matters of race. But the larger issue at play has nothing to do with...
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