John Kasich: Saving Conservatism by Abandoning Ship: “If the party can’t be fixed,” Kasich said, “I’m not going to be able to support the party.” (CNN interview with Jake Tapper. Saturday, October 7, 2017.) As a moderate conservative who is two years away from voting, I don’t know where to turn. John Kasich’s threat to leave…

 (Creative Commons) “Girls, I hope you know what message you’re putting out there,” said Mrs. Williamson, costume designer for Academy’s theater department, after the final rehearsal of A Voice In The Dark. “With everything that’s happening right now in the media, I hope that people see this as encouragement to speak up before it’s too…

The city of this weekend’s tragedy. (Thomas Hawk/Flickr)  The following letter is in response to the Las Vegas attacks. Georgia Tuckerman has sent this to her representatives: Beatty, Brown, and Portman. Dear Representatives,  I took a foreign relations course the summer before my junior year with students from all over the world. The international students…

The statue at the center of the controversy. (Courtesy/ Wikimedia Commons.) A century and a half after Civil War’s end, parts of the U.S. are still stuck in the 1860s. Statues of Generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson litter the South, and an attempt to remove similar symbols of the Confederacy sparked an unforeseen…

Dear France,  We thought future history textbooks were already being printed. “The Nativist Revolution” would be the heading. The first subsection would be the United Kingdom. Second, the United States. Third, you guys.  We were positive your presidency was going to to be handed to Marine Le Pen, the far-right and anti-European Union candidate.  Until…

The 2017 NFL Draft that took place on April 27-29 has been touted as one of the most talent-filled classes in the history of the league. Even though the class was filled with many future NFL stars, nobody knew for sure what the exact first round draft order would be from top to bottom.  All…

NFL Comissioner Roger Goodell at the draft. (Courtesy/Creative Commons) The NFL has a major domestic violence problem. Ever since Ray Rice was charged with assaulting his fiancee in 2014, domestic violence issues have plagued the league. The NFL tried to take a harder stance on domestic violence in recent years, but the pendulum seems to…

“Echo chamber” is a phrase I first heard when visiting a college last spring. It’s been stuck in my mind ever since, slipping into my everyday vocabulary and forcing me to experience Columbus Academy differently. I’ve grown up as a liberal in a conservative household. My stances on issues have always been challenged, and I…

Admit it: you’ve thought about your college application when joining a new club or extracurricular. We have, too.  Many of us, including the people contributing to this editorial, are guilty of stretching ourselves too thinly across our community. It is important to take on new positions out of interest and passion, but, a lot of…

Coined in 1966, “model minority” refers to a minority group that attains a high degree of socioeconomic success and is calculated by observing incarceration rates, family stability, income, education, and impact on society. Due to their meritocracy, Indian Americans are often stereotyped under this term. This label has its benefits and shortcomings. As an Indian…