Category: Opinions

By Max Saltman Executive Staff  Mark Twain once wrote that “history doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.” I thought about that as I read Gerald

By Max SaltmanExecutive Staff The University is exploiting our apathy. In many ways, the job of opinions editor is pleasantly slow. We rarely receive submissions,

By Max Saltman Executive Staff This will be my first Sewanee semester without taking an Arabic class, and the first semester since 2012 that the University

By Max SaltmanExecutive Staff  The global pandemic and its ensuing recession have exposed seriously ugly truths about the healthcare industry. In the past months, companies

It’s not a matter of whether, but when. By Luke WilliamsonContributing Writer A little over a month ago at the dinner table, following the conclusion

The Purple Podcast is the newest platform by which the Sewanee Purple strives to be the “student organ” of the University of the South. Listen to Episode

By Jasmine HuangExecutive Staff While the world continues to purge itself with unanticipated savagery, my days have grown long and idle in quarantine. I’ve fallen

By Mandy Moe Pwint TuStaff Writer The email came out at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, April 14. I was in the middle of my advising

By Richard Pryor, IIIStaff Writer In his acclaimed book Changes in the Land, William Cronon, an historian at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, combines the cultural

Lake Cheston. Photo by Rob Mohr (C’21). By Ash MidyettContributing Writer How stupid were we? Thinking this will never end. Suspended in one moment,Our toes sinking into