I never binge-watched T.V. shows. I would go through an episode here and there, until one day when my 13 year-old self browsed Netflix and ended up on The Office. I had overheard bits of the show’s bizarre...
The notion that anyone can “Make America Great Again” (MAGA) assumes one dangerous idea: that America was “great” in the first place. I can confidently say that this isn’t the case.
The United...
154,000 hours of soccer.
Eleven years, three broken arms, two concussions, a broken foot, countless tweaks and sprains, and a knee surgery later, I still have the same passion for the game I started with...
In 1938, my grandfather fled Essen, Germany in fear of his life after Hitler claimed power. In 1978, my dad, 14-years-old at the time, watched from his home in Skokie as the right of a Neo-nazi group to...
Brockhampton is a rap collective that blew up in popularity in 2017 with their Saturation album trilogy. Despite the large amount of material Brockhampton released in 2017, all three of these albums were...
When I was four years old, I was obsessed with Sesame Street. When I was four years old, I thought that I was straight.
I was never given any reason to think otherwise. The world taught me that heterosexuality...
On a Saturday night a few weeks ago, I was sitting on my couch watching Serena Williams kill it on the court in her singles match with my family. As we watched, some of my family began making fun of Williams...
Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh was recently appointed to the Supreme Court after confirmation hearings that confronted sexual assault allegations made against Kavanaugh. His nomination and subsequent...
This past May, my older brother, Kevin, graduated from college with a degree in computer science. In July, I flew out to Seattle with him to assist in his search for a new home away from home. If one is...
Never before have I experienced such an overwhelmingly suffocating silence the likes of which followed Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman. The harsh truths revealed in this earth-shattering film left the theater...
All my life I have lived the same routine. I’ve grown up in the same Glenview culture, surrounded by the Glenview “bubble.” I use that word, “bubble” not in a negative way, but with a more bittersweet...
In mainstream society, we often approach science and religion through separate ways of thinking. If we attempt to solve the mystery of the creation of our origin through both lenses of religion and science,...
