Music Review: The National’s Sleep Well Beast

September 14, 2017 Jackson Shrout 0

Upon listening to Sleep Well Beast, I recalled Roger Ebert’s memoir Life Itself, in which he refers to cinema as “a machine that generates empathy.” Music generates empathy in much the same way, generally on a more personal scale. Considering how intrinsic sadness is to the process of empathy, most music artists will, at some point or another, bare the moroseness of their […]

Ending DACA: A Wake Up Call

September 14, 2017 oracle 0

Five years ago, Pres. Barack Obama, through executive action, established a program known as Deferred Action for Children of Arrivals (DACA). The program permits undocumented […]