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June 13 , 2025

A week in the studio with American Dreamers

When Studio Music and Jazz department chair John Daversa asked me to photograph his "American Dreamers" recording session last March, I thought I was signing up for a fly-on-the-wall kind of job.

How kids teach us the meaning of mindfulness

Lately I’ve been wondering if it’s possible to reconcile childishness and adulthood.

Expect, accept discomfort in a society of differing perspectives

This summer, I spent a month working as the office coordinator at a music camp I attended as a child. I was excited to learn that we were presenting a class called Social Justice in Jazz, in which...

Twenty years of wisdom on the small things, the big ideas and everything in...

Last weekend was my 20th birthday. It also happened to be my deadline for this article. So while crouching over my laptop and getting an intellectual hard-on for politics is still one of my favorite p...

The rise of modern sophism in the Trump era

Update, March 6, 2017: The conclusion of this column has been updated to reflect a more recent draft of the version published in the March 2 issue. In ancient Athens, there were two prominent schoo...

Sí se Puede? Where the Women’s March movement falls short

When I returned home from the Women’s March in Miami I felt invincible. I carried my optimism in feet aching from hours of marching and in a raspy voice from hollering dozens of liberal aphorisms thro...

Left employs identity politics in same divisive way as the right

The result of the 2016 presidential election has, among many things, underscored the necessity of self-reflection among Americans, especially liberals. Perhaps President-elect Trump’s boisterous and u...

Retain empathy after divisive year

The rhetoric that has surfaced over the course of the 2016 presidential race, primarily due to the vile, widely incoherent assertions made by Republican nominee Donald Trump, has integrated seamlessly...

Decisive win for Hillary, but continued uphill battle for women

Sept. 26 was a critical evening for the seemingly interminable 2016 presidential race, which, to the delight of world leaders and the American public alike, appears to be inching toward a cease-fire. ...

The Supreme Court, Roger Ailes and the decline of bipartisanship in America...

Involving young people in politics has been a major theme in the 2016 presidential race, likely due to the fact that so many young people are disillusioned with the political process. Their apathy is ...

Mackenzie Karbon