Following the presidential debate on Sept. 10, even if you don’t follow politics at all, you’ve probably caught a stray sound bite or two. Something about immigrants eating dogs and cats, or concepts...

William Alan Reinsch, a contributor and chairperson for America’s Center for Strategic and International Studies, recently wrote that “predicting a politician’s moves after a campaign is harder...

Donald Trump lost. Come Jan. 20, 2021, at 12:01 p.m. — one minute after Joe Biden is inaugurated — he will no longer be president of the United States. However, Donald John Trump will remain an enduring...

There's a funny axiom about what happens when 18-year-olds leave their small towns for college: that they'll experience a culture shock of sudden diversity and arts and multiculturalism. When I came to...

On the evening of Monday, Oct. 26, the controversial and highly contested confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett as the 115th Justice of the Supreme Court came to a dramatic end. A bitterly divided Senate...

I attended Temple University for a semester. I planned to study journalism and then go work for some media company, but life got in the way. I don't take issue with my time there, nor do I have a...

For several months, President Trump has minimized the impact of COVID-19 on our country. He has claimed criticism of his administration's coronavirus procedures to be a hoax, only wears a mask when absolutely...

Over the weekend, I sat contemplating how we got here as a country: almost 210,000 Americans dead, millions more infected and now the president in the hospital because of his arrogance. I have no...

It was announced on Sunday that Oracle Corporation won the bidding for U.S. operations of the video sharing app TikTok. This does not mean that Oracle will have majority ownership of the app, but they...

In a world where sports culture is being instructed to "stick to sports," one might not expect to engage in a political spectacle at one of America's biggest sporting events of the year. And yet, when...

The Whit accepts ’Letter to the Editor’ submissions from members of the community and university. The opinions expressed are those of the author, and not The Whit or its staff.  To The Editor:...

German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once said that truths are "illusions of which one has forgotten that they are illusions." What, exactly, does this mean? If we accept this premise, why do we...