I was born in New York City, but I moved to Mumbai at the age of 6. I went to the American School of Bombay, but I lived in a joint Gujarati family of eight people for eight years. I have a U.S. passport,...
In 17th-century Puritan Massachusetts, transgressions as small as kissing one’s spouse in public on a Sunday could earn one several hours of public shame in the stocks.
In the stocks, offenders were...
Here’s a list of seven things that happened last week that deserved Facebook statuses longer and more emotional than those about a beaten horse cartoon:
1. The potential shutdown of the Department...
As Valentine’s Day approaches, we thought that we would lighten the mood by celebrating that which often goes uncelebrated in February: disastrous romantic misadventure. Without further ado, we present...
The publication of an op-ed by Thomas Lloyd (SFS ’15) in this paper last week has had profound effects on campus since it went to press. His account of how systemic mismanagement and stonewalling by...
As The Hoya arrives on newsstands today, Americans across the country will go to the polls to decide the leadership of their states and, ultimately, the composition of the 114th Congress.
Of course,...
Between the time we’ve finished this column and the time this article goes to press Tuesday morning, it’s entirely likely that several more completely improbable states will have been added to the...
In his recent, over-clicked article imploring America’s (wealthy) parents not to send their kids to the Ivy League, William Deresiewicz mentions in passing that religious schools often exceed their green-leafy...
