Assistant Op/Ed Editor and Columnist Gavin Beeker considers the inevitable result of a broad education: our horizons expand to the point where they are no longer visible, and we float along, unmoored to any fixed support.
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Tags: Gavin Beeker, Senior Columns
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Economic mysticism
Collegian columnist Gavin Beeker writes on the hidden costs which is an indirect form of taxation as your money loses value in your hand.
Tags: Einstein, national debt, U.S. Constitution
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Lessons of anxiety
Collegian columnist Gavin Beeker recounts his ordeal with panic attacks, and the insight he gleaned from the experience.
Tags: EKG, panic attacks, WebMD
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Libertarianism is here to stay
Collegian columnist Gavin Beeker details why Ron Paul is the most interesting candidate for this election year.
Tags: primary debates, Ron Paul, Super Tuesday
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Free speech is everyone’s, even Rush Limbaugh’s
Collegian Columnist Gavin Beeker argues that so long as Rush Limbaugh is using hateful and inflammatory language, free speech is alive and well in America.
Tags: Freedom of Speech, Offensive, Rush Limbaugh
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Intellectual illumination
Collegian Columnist Gavin Beeker muses on proper motivation for an academic career. There will always be, and necessarily so, a tension between formal requirement and spontaneity in education.
Tags: Einstein, Freud, intellectual illumination, Kant, Limbo, Melville
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The Case of the Missing Extra Crispy
Collegian columnist Gavin Beeker spots the missing treat in Amherst’s food cornucopia.
Tags: Amherst center, Food & Drink, fried chicken
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Free speech includes ideas you don’t like, too
Columnist Gavin Beeker criticizes Occupy protesters for limiting free speech.
Tags: amherst, Free Speech, occupy
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