Gravity Can’t Command You. Neither Can the Law.
Managing Opinion Editor Caroline Flinn ’28 dissects the idea of law as inevitability, arguing that in moments of democratic backsliding, obedience becomes abdication rather than civic virtue.
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Justice, Not Charity: Rethinking Service at Amherst
Managing Opinion Editor Caroline Flinn ’28 unpacks Amherst students’ relationship with community engagement, arguing that superficial volunteerism risks reducing justice to charity, revealing how civic participation requires sustained effort.
We Are Being Trained to Watch (And Do Nothing)
Managing Opinion Editor Caroline Flinn ’28 interrogates the increasing political violence by the state, arguing that it is no longer an aberration but an accelerating, normalized mechanism of governance — one that conditions the public to witness brutality, absorb it, and ultimately do nothing.
Nowhere Feels Like Home
Assistant Opinion Editor Caroline Flinn ’28 explores the fragile idea of “home” in young adulthood, arguing that for a generation shaped by instability, belonging is less a place than a performance.
We Owe Nothing to the Future: Questioning The Burden Placed on Youth to Save Us
Assistant Opinion Editor Caroline Flinn ’28 interrogates the cultural myth that young people are humanity’s last line of defense, arguing that the rhetoric of “saving the future” has become a way to burden youth with endless sacrifice while ignoring the crises unfolding in the present.
Welcome to the “Golden Age”
Assistant Opinion Editor Caroline Flinn ’28 investigates the White House website’s increasingly propagandistic rhetoric, revealing how emotionally charged headlines and triumphalist slogans blur the line between official communication and partisan spectacle.
Satire: The Cocaine Capital of Western Massachusetts
Assistant Opinion Editor Caroline Flinn ’28 covers the ongoing saga of the Hotel UMass scandal, the Pioneer Valley’s most controversial new hotspot where white powder has drawn the attention of many.