Second-year law student Chris Austin takes on the conservative claim that liberals allow and promote "judicial activism."

Cody Gault '11 takes on the Republicans who use xenophobic adds to scare white voters.

Elana Dahlager '11 criticizes the ideological underpinnings of the Tea Party after her beloved Velvet Underground drummer came forward as a avid Tea Bagger.

Jake Friedman '11 travelled to Washington D.C. last weekend to take in Glenn Beck's bally-hooed "Restoring Honor" rally. But what he found is far from honorable.

Fifty-thousand dollars. That sum of money could not pay for four years of tuition alone at Cornell University, and an individual person donating that much could not even get half of a classroom named in his honor. It is enough money though, to cause some people to raise a fuss when the Veritas Fund for Higher Education donates it for the promotion of intellectual diversity.

Basically, intellectual diversity is the novel concept that one should understand a diverse variety of viewpoints. That’s hardly a radical or conservative notion. When someone does not have an intellectually diverse viewpoint, you can often tell by some of the silly arguments they make.