Around January of 2020 I did an interview with The Daily, a student newspaper at Northwestern. I was interviewed about my thoughts on COVID-19. At the time I was pretty confident it wouldn’t be a big deal. Every couple years there is a news cycle about the next pandemic and they generally amount to very…

I just finished reading “Justice” a book on philosophy by Harvard professor Michael J. Sandel. It was quite good! Sandel ran through many of the most common schools of ethical thought from Jeremy Bentham’s utilitarianism, to Aristotle’s virtue ethics and provided examples where they succeeded and failed, before eventually providing his own explanation for how…

They work harder than you think A lot of people outside of the political space tell about members of Congress (moC) are all corrupt, lazy, and disinterested in the common folk. I don’t necessarily think all of that is always untrue, but it occurs to me that most people don’t know how hard being a…