It’s quite ironic that one of the first members of Congress to endorse Trump—former Attorney General Jeff Sessions—became one of his bitter foes. And it’s even more surprising that Democrats became some of the most outspoken defenders of the chief architect of family separation policy. Donald Trump’s demagoguery has surely created some strange bedfellows. From […]
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Editor’s Note: This article was published one year ago today. In honor of the #MeToo movement, the Parkman Post will be publishing this article once again. USA gymnastics star McKayla Maroney publicly announced her personal experience as a victim of sexual harassment in response to the recent #MeToo movement on Twitter, writing, “I had a dream […]
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Survival has been the exclusive factor which caused species’ development and evolution. Starting from billions of years ago, when life emerged for the first time, species have been evolving themselves to be “selfish” in order to compete against others for resources, space and ultimately, survival. One of the biggest contributors to this process is definitely […]
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The allegations against Harvey Weinstein were first printed in The New York Times on October 5th, 2017, and ten days later actress Alyssa Milano took to Twitter and encouraged women to voice their sexual assault stories under the hashtag “#MeToo”, a phrase social activist Tarana Burke first used on MySpace in 2006. The objective of […]
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Brett Kavanaugh is not fit for the Supreme Court. The mounting evidence that he likely did sexually assault three women on three different occasions should have been enough to disqualify him. But the 45-minute long, Trumpian tantrum he threw during his testimony on Thursday adds another important layer to Kavanaugh: he is an unabashed partisan […]
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Regardless of the outcome of the Kavanaugh nomination process, something much graver, with much worse consequences, will have emerged as a reality. The Supreme Court, one of the most undemocratic features of our republican form of government, holds a cherished spot in the American sentiment as a neutral arbiter of Constitutional norms, a check on […]
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If you asked me one week ago if I believed that the Kavanaugh accusations were relevant, I would have responded with a firm no. It has been more than a year and a half since Trump first assumed office, and I, along with a sizable plurality of the country, have spent much of that time […]
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Quickly Google “post truth era” and you will find a multitude of articles about white lies in our daily life, recent politics, or moral relativism, but that’s not what I am going to talk about. What I want to discuss here is the possibility that we have entered into an era where humans are no […]
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In the span of a few months, I transformed from an apathetic eighth grader into an impassioned leftist willing to spar with anyone. And in freshman year, as the 2016 election heated up, so did my fervor for politics and my willingness to debate. As I learned more about politics, read more political journalism, and […]
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It's important to parse between hateful, bigoted attacks and cogent, legitimate criticisms.
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Ryan Yang is V form student from Singapore. He hopes to pursue a career in business, but is currently more interested in getting more involved the Ecommerce sector, specifically, in marketplace creation. He has been working on his own social enterprise venture, Empowering People In Cambodia (EPIC)...
Colin Capenito is a 17 year old from Worcester, MA and is a member of the St. Mark’s School Class of 2019. He sees St. Mark’s as a great doorway to many new opportunities. He has been interested in filmmaking and writing ever since he was very young, and is constantly looking for ways to improve...
Christopher Bok is a freshman from New York, born in Suwon, South Korea. As a newcomer at St. Mark's this year, Chris is trying out as many opportunities as he can to find out what he really likes. Chris is mainly interested in soccer, biology, and philosophy. He enjoys reading dystopian novels...