Politics is the communal narrative directed by hidden analogies and symbols, refereed less by the men and women who exercise their will, and more by the primacy of the foundations that impregnate their ideologies. "People bind themselves into political teams that share moral narratives," Jonathan Haidt, a social psychologist and the Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership at NYU's Stern...

The Inland Empire (I. E.) is one of the fast-growing economies in the US, according to Forbes. The I. E. has multiple chains of dining, shops and more. However, what the I. E. seems to lack is exclusive sneaker shops, causing many in the area to drive to Los Angeles for their sneaker fix. Here to fix that, Ranked. IE...

The lesson of the twentieth century: When the United States fades from the global arena, the world enters perilous territory. Look no further than the decades long squabble between China and Japan. It’s a stressed dynamic wrought by a violent, massacred past and a resurfacing paranoia. High-speed economic growth has waned, giving way to the dormant, subterranean conflicts of the...

On September 20th, Chris Salazar organized and moderated a panel discussion on free will, or the ability to choose between different possible courses of action unimpeded. All three panelists on stage, were philosophy professors and addressed questions of free will, and the deeper meaning behind it. Professor Thompson supported the idea that there is no free will. Dr. Falcioni took...

On the evening of Monday, Aug. 21, the excitement and ephemeral unity of the solar eclipse concluded and President Trump announced his new policy on the enduring conflict in Afghanistan. The short-sighted policy is an attempt to end a decades long U. S. national security issue and support a tattered Afghanistan against terrorism and internal decay. In his speech, President...

Love. Faith. Hope. They’re essential to the experience of being human in the same way the laws of thermodynamics are essential to the universe. But there’s a qualitative difference between the former and the latter: At bottom, the dictates of matter and energy have it easy. They’re uninteresting. Predictable. Like two star-crossed lovers, they’re governed by the inertia of cosmic...

Prince Rodgers Nelson, the regal and musical macho femme virtuoso, shocked the world last Thursday with his untimely passing at age 57. Prince, like his flamboyant glam-rock predecessor David Bowie, was born to defy. “A strong spirit,” Prince said, “transcends rules.” And transcend them he did. In September of 1993, Prince eschewed language in favor of an iconographic amalgamation of...

As the global order frays at the ends, and cosmic inertia extends the edges of an indifferent universe, the transience of existence lures the armor of nihilism. But Rick, the belching alcoholic, genius, whose character embodies a Kierkegaardian anxiety, the bodily pleasures of Camus and the rebelliousness of Sartre, returns for a long-awaited third season to break the fourth wall,...

Congress dealt a sharp rebuke to President Obama on Wed. Sept. 28 as they voted to override his veto and enact the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (JASTA). The legislation allows the families of the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks to sue Saudi Arabia. But that move threatens to harm American interests as JASTA guts the principle of...

The political atmosphere is rank with opinion and suspicion following the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, 79, last Saturday as President Obama and the GOP wrestle for power. The air is thick, so allow me to clear it: We do not need a progressive, liberal or conservative justice to replace Scalia; we need a justice who pierces the veneer of...