https://www.erichjprince.com/contact daily 0.75 2021-04-14 https://www.erichjprince.com/home daily 1.0 2022-09-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6051092944d46116c0b54108/1623169128007-G0YDRPWHX33WNSEPWT7H/IMG_8165.jpeg Home - Erich Prince is the editor of Merion West and an opinion contributor at The Hill. He also contributes to a variety of other publications, having written at The Philadelphia Inquirer, The News & Observer, Quillette, RealClearPolitics, etc. A graduate of Yale University, he is also a speaker and hosts regular discussions and interviews in various forums. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6051092944d46116c0b54108/ef8fa139-4570-4f7c-a6d5-12558be2ca30/IowaVoter_060722_ap-Charlie-Neibergall_w-2.jpg Home - Art of the political comeback? The Hill - 08/09/22 “Speaking before supporters on the evening of Nov. 6, 2018, John E. 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Although …” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6051092944d46116c0b54108/b9f225b9-3ea9-40f5-b9d5-8b6283b5ac62/1979.jpg Op-Eds - How amateurism can combat political correctness The Post and Courier - 03/26/21 “Among his various reflections, Dyson chose also to provide a word of counsel to younger people, just starting their careers: ‘do not imagine that you have to know everything before you can do anything. My own best work was done when I was most ignorant.’” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6051092944d46116c0b54108/1616170102033-8274CFAOSGDKDQZFYOSG/os-1521044466-s4n6d05jmc-snap-image.jpg Op-Eds - Personal stories pack a wallop - but should they lend credence? Orlando Sential - 12/14/18 “WKMG-Channel 6 anchor Matt Austin gave a powerful testimony before the Florida Legislature’s Judiciary Committee in late January. The Orlando-area reporter began by making the point that though he had covered the Legislature many times in the past …” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6051092944d46116c0b54108/1616170005882-XOF9AZG6WZ0GBT4J2LPP/bidenjoe_warrenelizabeth_sandersbernie_091019getty.jpg Op-Eds - 2020 is not a family affair, for a change The Hill - 09/14/19 “With the exception of 2008 and now 2020, the 21st century's presidential elections thus far have been something of a family affair. From George W. Bush to Hillary Clinton to Jeb Bush to Mitt Romney, the son of 1968 presidential candidate George Romney …” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6051092944d46116c0b54108/1616008377778-I8JPWGO15K676ZAR4Z0T/boy.jpg Op-Eds - How the power of pictures can move us from ‘ought’ to action News & Observer - 12/26/15 “Newspapers around the world deliberated the appropriateness of publishing such a graphic photograph. The image, now famous, showed a lifeless toddler wearing …” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6051092944d46116c0b54108/1616170273057-WPFXJIU0T9N3X80TG29B/sandersbernie_091919gn16_lead.jpg Op-Eds - Democratic critiques of Sanders miss the mark The Hill - 02/05/20 “Although some may argue that this is nothing new, the volume of the critiques has increased in proportion to Sanders’ recent ascent in the polls. Criticisms have focused on the degree to which Sanders’ policy goals …” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6051092944d46116c0b54108/1616010812020-SERAPOJHSB0X08JFSZEO/vandrewjeff_111518gn_lead.jpg Op-Eds - Van Drew and the lost art of constructive dissent The Hill - 12/18/19 “Interviewing Rep. Jeff Van Drew in September for the first time — just two months before he would be launched into the national spotlight as one of the lone congressional Democrats …” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6051092944d46116c0b54108/1616172791570-2M96K3RUKZOKC0JNLFWO/news_hands-1167619_1280pixabay_IOKpHAX.jpg.1440x1000_q85_box-0%2C0%2C1055%2C732_crop_detail.jpg Op-Eds - The Trade-off Between News Journalism Quality and Clickability Media Village - 02/18/21 “Although philosophy and the business of news do tend to occupy their respective realms and often concern themselves with vastly different questions, once in a great while a debate within philosophy can shed light …” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6051092944d46116c0b54108/8d6c19cd-56a1-4e3d-9073-0f2b9370e19a/rawImage.jpg Op-Eds - “Ignore the empty ‘working people’ rhetoric” The Courier-Journal - 07/30/21 “More than anything though, in the weeks to come, as our politicians tell us that “working people” demand we pass the infrastructure bill, abolish the filibuster, or do any number of other things, it might be worth recalling that it’s a term abused time and again historically—and a meaningless one at that.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6051092944d46116c0b54108/1616172758464-5UYYSNLS0ZIQCHJFZOHE/jon-sailer-8JYxCF00X3Y-unsplash_M4YkNlP.jpg.1440x1000_q85_box-0%2C0%2C615%2C427_crop_detail.jpg Op-Eds - The United States v. Tucker Carlson Media Village - 03/16/21 “During his March 9th broadcast of Tucker Carlson Tonight, Tucker Carlson drew attention to remarks delivered by President Joe Biden the evening before, in which the President had indicated his administration was focused …” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6051092944d46116c0b54108/1616172773795-H9572RKJUQCWO8WZ2NQD/Words_brett-jordan-POMpXtcVYHo-unsplash.jpg.1440x1000_q85_box-0%2C0%2C5184%2C3600_crop_detail.jpg Op-Eds - Why News Media Must Reconsider Terms Like "Officials" and "Authorities" Media Village - 03/05/21 “Prepositions and conjunctions aside, if one were to count the most frequently appearing words in news articles, "officials" and "authorities" -- nouns, they happen to be -- would likely be close to the ones most often …” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6051092944d46116c0b54108/1616172835065-ZV765GZ0N9Z8HI671Z4N/information-word-cloud_G1WZUuwO-graphic_stock_6eO5FWM.jpg.1440x1000_q85_box-0%2C0%2C4106%2C2851_crop_detail.jpg Op-Eds - Why Even Some Journalists Support News Moderation Media Village - 01/28/21 “When Andrew Sullivan was a PhD student at Harvard, he traveled to Dorset, England to visit the home of the philosopher Michael Oakeshott, who was then in his 80s. Sullivan was at work on his dissertation, which explored” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6051092944d46116c0b54108/1616172818048-9Y8KH2LO5QR5VLJ8XBF7/political_direction-654123_1920unsplash.jpg.1440x1000_q85_box-391%2C136%2C2049%2C1287_crop_detail.jpg Op-Eds - In Defense of the Odd Man (or Woman) Out in News: Juan Williams, Rick Santorum, Meghan McCain Media Village - 02/02/21 “During their 2019 campaign for seats on the Philadelphia City Council, candidates from the Working Families Party campaigned, in part, under the slogan: "We can end the Republican Party in Philadelphia." (The Philadelphia …” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6051092944d46116c0b54108/1616172850493-8AKKLKLOU7Z7IRF205WF/neutral_justice-683942_1920pixabay.jpg.1440x1000_q85_box-505%2C469%2C2689%2C1986_crop_detail.jpg Op-Eds - News Journalists and the Pretense of Partisan Neutrality Media Village - 01/06/21 “During his 2016 presidential campaign, then-candidate Donald Trump joined George Stephanopoulos for an interview on ABC's Good Morning America. During the course of their May 13th conversation, in which Stephanopoulos” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6051092944d46116c0b54108/1616172877445-GNYEL819E3BKZUNFXN9T/newspaper_luis-cortes-DRL63jJ0L2Y-unsplash.jpg.1440x1000_q85_box-0%2C907%2C2485%2C2632_crop_detail.jpg Op-Eds - The Unbearable Lightness of News Coverage Media Village - 12/21/20 “Upon learning that topless photographs taken of her by paparazzi while she was vacationing in St. Barts had been published in various tabloids, actress Natalie Portman, then a student at Harvard, brushed off the episode …” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6051092944d46116c0b54108/1616172865783-1C8U2AI5E7S0QEWZPCNH/newspaper_juliana-malta-Uy0Bq8vYjk4-unsplash.jpg.1440x1000_q85_box-0%2C0%2C3829%2C2659_crop_detail.jpg Op-Eds - The Unintended Consequences of Subscriptions Media Village - 12/23/20 “In March of this year, I alluded to a trend that a number of commentators were also sensing and expressing unease about: the possibility that an increasing reliance on subscription-based revenue might imperil impartiality …” https://www.erichjprince.com/essays daily 0.75 2022-09-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6051092944d46116c0b54108/85df70c4-b40b-49fd-a81a-806d261b81eb/2880.jpg Essays - “Is Nothing Sacred?” Merion West - 10/28/21 “And this is exacerbated by a situatedness in a contemporary culture that has removed the sort of guardrails that would tell a would-be troublemaker that to defile something like a grave or a tribute to those lost in a mass casualty terrorist attack is unacceptable…” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6051092944d46116c0b54108/8c9de363-a0d5-4d36-ac99-80605c3e9510/AP_607869558367.jpg Essays - How Things End Merion West - 08/06/21 “As Joshua Foa Dienstag reminds us, the essential tragedy of being human (or being anything, for that matter) stems from the passage of time.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6051092944d46116c0b54108/1616033603835-F57EX3RAZL9E87GBYNTO/AdobeStock_62971832.jpeg Essays - Elite Colleges Reconsidered Quillette - 11/07/19 “Yale students, if they’re still anything like they were when I graduated a few short years ago, likely aren’t overly concerned with the college admissions scandal that dominated the news this past spring, even as Lifetime releases its TV-movie …” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6051092944d46116c0b54108/1616033874082-JNQYOQ09M9BX1O57GDM6/Quote_Santayana_cctv-1536x1024.jpeg Essays - Going Deeper Than a Famous Quotation or Two Merion West - 03/16/20 “By inviting further exploration of a quotation’s origin, we might re-discover great and complicated thinkers, who, it turns out, have far more to offer than a single phrase.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6051092944d46116c0b54108/1616034052628-YMQAFNCQYS4LZ2D05FAR/mprstatue2.jpg Essays - Columbus Belongs Not Only to History Merion West - 06/17/20 “And one example of this—among others—is how prominently he features in a particular tradition of philosophy: that of philosophical pessimism.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6051092944d46116c0b54108/1616010227964-H02TGNDOZ02FKC8VXCAV/paul-gilmore-122772-unsplash.jpg Essays - Thoreau and the Primitivist Temptation Quillette - 03/05/19 “When Edward Abbey died, his friends honored his wishes. They stopped at a liquor store for a few cases of beer and loaded his body into the back of a pickup truck to take him into the desert …” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6051092944d46116c0b54108/ebd94d46-526e-4953-b12b-83a5e9a87a08/59d44abac5c10.image_.jpg Essays - Politics: Not an End in Itself Merion West - 08/19/21 “As such, politics has eclipsed its primary purpose—namely, to provide the means by which people can seek out and, in turn, live good lives, lives that have nothing to do with politics.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6051092944d46116c0b54108/1616178306762-7KR662N94N4XTMYKU8KL/Ennui-I-Walter-Richard-Sickert-oil-painting.jpg Essays - Leisure: When It Becomes an Unexpected Curse Merion West - 05/17/18 “It’s what Irving Babbitt meant when he wrote that happiness is to be found in work if at all. Or why John Adams would write that he was happiest on days he felt most purposeful.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6051092944d46116c0b54108/66318106-6cbb-490e-91c8-880861358a95/youreprobablynotactually.png Essays - You’re Probably Not Actually a Libertarian Merion West - 03/01/18 “It is not so much that these young people have decided that libertarianism is preferable to traditional conservatism. It is instead that many of the tenets of traditional conservatism are condescendingly rejected out-of-hand for their inability to be mapped onto any scenario and always produce the same predictable answer.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6051092944d46116c0b54108/1616177860825-YK9NEXRUJJP3JRYEW3SW/rs-198093-GettyImages-141386267-960x676.jpg Essays - A Once-Unnecessary Reminder: Criticism Produces Good Works Merion West - 11/29/20 “My own song ‘Alabama’ richly deserved the shot Lynyrd Skynyrd gave me with their great record. I don’t like my words when I listen to it. They are accusatory and condescending…” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6051092944d46116c0b54108/1616178005294-DWKIT1B5T2OJIZI0BOZD/MMMFG2T7GZB35NSWG4PATAWMMM-1-960x540.jpeg Essays - And They’ve Come for the Founders Merion West - 06/24/20 “However, as one watches the Founders find their way into the crosshairs of so many, perhaps the obvious needs to be restated.” https://www.erichjprince.com/interviews daily 0.75 2022-09-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6051092944d46116c0b54108/25573690-ea04-4915-9bfb-20e500d383ae/dan-abrams-0930211.jpg Interviews - Interview: Dan Abrams: Staking Out the Middle Ground MediaVillage - 08/16/22 “Dan Abrams, host of the NewsNation program Dan Abrams Live, joins Erich Prince for a wide-ranging conversation on media bias, how cable news has changed over the past two decades, and how NewsNation has bet its positioning on the belief that there is a large untapped middle of Americans looking for an alternative to the partisan and acrimonious norm when it comes to cable news.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6051092944d46116c0b54108/1616032514068-UEN2TGITXPKWUEP83P24/unnamed-2-960x644.jpg Interviews - Interview: The Man Who Photographed Tiananmen Square Merion West - 06/05/18 “To tell you the truth, I am drawn to these dangerous events even though they scare the hell out of me. I am sure a shrink would have a field day with that…I guess there is an adrenaline rush in trying to capture images under dangerous situations and making it out alive.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6051092944d46116c0b54108/e8c5da60-bc26-4ce0-911e-b7de4ff166c4/Philadelphia+City+Hall+1.jpg Interviews - Holmesburg: Calling for an Apology from the City of Philadelphia Merion West - 08/03/22 “Erich Prince was joined by author Allen Hornblum and activist Adrianne Jones-Alston for a discussion about the legacy of the human experimentation that took place at Holmesburg Prison and at other detention centers in Philadelphia.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6051092944d46116c0b54108/1616032696728-5DXBB05YL95V03P3R9BC/ATFWEB04.jpg Interviews - Interview: Pulitzer Prize-Winning Photographer of Seton Hall Dorm Fire Merion West - 06/14/18 “It was critically important to me then, and it’s still critically important to me now that I do not take advantage of the subject of any photograph…for my benefits or for my agenda. We saw some really tough things, and it could have become gratuitous.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6051092944d46116c0b54108/1616032292164-QXBM7IWFONWFVYQZULWV/Denver-1400x933-1.jpg Interviews - Rep. Denver Riggleman: Reflecting on His Two Years in D.C. Merion West - 10/30/20 “And I’ll have to say this: This was the worst job I ever had, but it was one of the best things I’ve ever done.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6051092944d46116c0b54108/1616032404130-JM1LEG7FWEE7BRITIDXK/mondale.jpg Interviews - Interview: Vice President Mondale Comments on Today’s Democratic Party Merion West - 04/11/19 “I told one of the other senators, ‘You’re a very pleasant, sweet person. But deep down, the public wants a son-of-a-gun. You’ve got to get stuff done.’” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6051092944d46116c0b54108/98e8983e-5bec-48c1-9e01-e9a0a44fd421/6139dfc5eedea900193dc21e.jpg Interviews - Sean Spicer: The Steele Dossier and “Radical Nation” Merion West - 11/26/21 “I was never a champion of the First Step Act. I just don’t understand why we keep missing the problem with crime, which is to get at how do we avoid it [and] not how do we lessen a sentence." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6051092944d46116c0b54108/d5b5bddb-774e-4ec9-99d2-741eea1882b5/yaleubeineckerarebookmanuscriptlibrary_1575x900_ezrastolleresto_08-2-2048x1170.jpg Interviews - Kay Hymowitz: The Devaluation of Higher Education Merion West - 07/28/21 “Actually, the two things that ex-Muslims let go of—the very last two things that they let go of—are eating pork and anti-Semitism. It’s because both of these things are so ingrained in us from such a young age.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6051092944d46116c0b54108/1616176179677-HIQSHJ4D45I20Q4IJ0IS/congressman-hice.png Interviews - Interview: Rep. Jody Hice on “Defund the Police” and Big Tech Censorship Merion West - 07/22/20 “But there is no question that we’ve got some major issues, and free speech is so dependent these days on these big tech companies, so they have to be very careful that free speech is protected. And, of course, there’s a pattern now that shows otherwise …” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6051092944d46116c0b54108/1616177283996-VPLUDGS6F94M54WOIXVE/dean.jpg Interviews - Rep. Madeleine Dean: Making Community College a Priority Merion West - 09/23/19 “[Some of my students] couldn’t do all three: commute, work, and schoolwork. So, I saw the affordability problem growing and growing in that setting, but I hear it also from my constituents in every higher education setting.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6051092944d46116c0b54108/1616176031450-4ISJWSTE7J6QNUL4EQW9/susanwild-1-960x629.jpg Interviews - Interview: Rep. Susan Wild on How Congress Can Respond to the Pandemic Merion West - 8/15/20 “The problem is, though, we can’t rely on volunteerism, donations, and gifts for much longer because—quite frankly—most of these places are getting pretty tapped out.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6051092944d46116c0b54108/1616008686164-1MNE9PFEYQAUHDFO8GCR/Women_March_Washington_rtr_img.jpg Interviews - What Feminism Means Today: Speaking with Dr. Christina Hoff Sommers Merion West - 07/26/18 “[Feminism today sometimes] sees the world as a zero-sum struggle between Venus and Mars. But most women want equality, not war. Men aren’t their adversaries. They are their brothers, sons, husbands, and friends. We are in this together.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6051092944d46116c0b54108/1616009787641-IGI29HELB5TQ0TFU5EGV/MG_7117.jpg Interviews - Interview: Jonathan Haidt on What Underlies Polarization in America Merion West - 01/30/19 “In a sense, the Founding Fathers feared democracy because of the tendency of people to be carried away by their passion and easily led astray by demagogues, and I think that our modern polarization, augmented by social media, could well bring their worst fears to reality.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6051092944d46116c0b54108/5d4d5fd1-bb15-4cf3-a078-53fa8a0aec05/Michael-Ireland.jpg Interviews - Anne Kim: The AP Exam and the Standardized Testing Debate Merion West - 11/05/21 “What I was not prepared for was the tsunami of just hate and pushback and disdain that would come from people I thought were my people: people that believed in enlightenment values, Western values, and liberal values.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6051092944d46116c0b54108/1616007186507-CQ7P6BKQFBZQKXAKQKOQ/aristotle.jpg Interviews - What is Virtue? A Talk with Professor Christian B. Miller Merion West - 08/08/18 “I have no desire to be president for example. But in that one aspect, I’m motivated or inspired to have my character better reflect [Lincoln’s] character. Not bring him down to my level but bring my character up to his level.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6051092944d46116c0b54108/5e13bf08-75f7-457c-968d-0215a7ce2976/9697729331_b099a1efcb_b-2.jpg Interviews - Will Marshall: Where Are the Moderates? Merion West - 07/06/22 “I don’t see a full, vigorous pivot by this President (and this White House) back toward the themes and approaches that Joe Biden articulated in his 2020 presidential race.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6051092944d46116c0b54108/1616177371246-UVH3N1PN7704ENO86JMA/jeff-van-drew-960x537.jpg Interviews - Interview: Rep. Jeff Van Drew on Getting the Two Parties to Work Together Merion West - 09/11/19 “America is an experiment in democracy like none other. I do believe in American exceptionalism. They spoke about many things, but one of the things that they spoke about was the fact that we should never be overly reliant on political parties.” https://www.erichjprince.com/opeds2 daily 0.75 2021-03-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6051092944d46116c0b54108/1616174856791-E5942QRKPPP18IIW1J6H/VOTE_shutterstock_1305303541.jpg.1440x1000_q85_box-20%2C0%2C5795%2C4016_crop_detail.jpg Op-Eds2 - a4 Advertising Evolves Self-Serve Digital Targeting for Political TV Ads Media Village - 09/30/20 “In June, a4 Advertising debuted its latest self-serve platform known as Athena Political, which is now increasingly being thrust into action as election day approaches. Athena Political, which enables advertisers to …” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6051092944d46116c0b54108/1616174899630-BNOHAYRID4Q2R6BWL67A/vote_buttons_generic_vy0V4jC.jpg.1440x1000_q85_box-80%2C0%2C771%2C480_crop_detail.jpg Op-Eds2 - State of Political Advertising: Summer 2020 Media Village - 07/07/20 “My previous column discussing the state of political advertising was published on February 24, 2020. The following day, former Vice President Joe Biden—according to an aggregate of political betting markets—had a …” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6051092944d46116c0b54108/1616174633527-Y3N3DHRTJEZ2FF64KE75/vote_Democrat_indep_republican_shutterstock_131928710.jpg.1440x1000_q85_box-1444%2C782%2C6260%2C4126_crop_detail.jpg Op-Eds2 - Michael Smerconish and Finding the Elusive Middle Media Village - 11/25/20 “Upon telling his family that had been invited to give the commencement speech at Widener University in Chester, PA in May of 2016, Michael Smerconish recounted his son's reaction to hearing about the invitation: …” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6051092944d46116c0b54108/1616174709604-0H7E2N4NXKKSJMLXO2BZ/marten-bjork-6dW3xyQvcYE-unsplash.jpg.1440x1000_q85_box-24%2C0%2C639%2C427_crop_detail.jpg Op-Eds2 - Glenn Greenwald: When a Co-Founder Has to Leave His Own Publication Media Village - 10/30/20 “On the afternoon of October 29th, Glenn Greenwald, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist best known for his illuminating coverage of National Security Agency (NSA) policies based on documents provided by Edward …” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6051092944d46116c0b54108/1616174990825-YFE2KPXBUX5B0ONB7PKT/sad-african-american-woman-reading-bad-newsSEbqleZd9Nstoryblock.jpg.1440x1000_q85_box-120%2C0%2C5880%2C4000_crop_detail.jpg Op-Eds2 - How Local News Is Covering the Pandemic in New York Media Village - 06/08/20 “Given the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic, with its overwhelming impact on New York City and its metropolitan area, it is worth exploring how various New York-based media ventures have covered the outbreak. Indeed …” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6051092944d46116c0b54108/1616182041893-P06DZB906GNV25YSIAKN/ncs_nbc-nightly-news-studio-3c_0001-960x576.jpeg Op-Eds2 - “Holding the Powerful Accountable”—Empty Words? Merion West - 09/07/20 “The holding the powerful accountable phrase resonates as it does—and, presumably, is chosen by the news media’s back-patters—because it is, indeed, precisely what a news media should be doing.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6051092944d46116c0b54108/1616181966729-0A0Y2DU9420OWTUV1CE2/5607258_101019-wpvi-4-arrests-locker-thefts-11pm-video-CC-vid-960x540.jpg Op-Eds2 - Rep. Susan Wild’s Bipartisan Initiative for Pandemic-related Child Care Merion West - 09/18/20 “For Rep. Wild, this bill might also provide a foundation for downstream economic normalization; if child care is more accessible, the argument goes, then it becomes less burdensome for parents to return to work, seek out new potential employment, or continue their own education.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6051092944d46116c0b54108/1616175023221-8NCHN0V35EDC5OO37OLV/NPR_SVoss-NPRHQ01.jpg.1440x1000_q85_box-0%2C19%2C5502%2C3840_crop_detail.jpg Op-Eds2 - NPR's "The National Conversation": Answering the Pressing Questions Media Village - 05/05/20 “On March 23rd, ten days after the White House declared a national emergency—and when the number of Coronavirus cases stood at just over 44,000 in the United States—NPR debuted its new program The National …” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6051092944d46116c0b54108/1616181534445-LYO1GCDAE6B3GB21CNGZ/protests_philadelphia_looting_060320.jpg Op-Eds2 - Local governments need to rediscover their raison d'etre The Hill - 06/03/20 “Eight days of protests in practically every major city in every state in the union — with riots, fires, injuries and untold millions in property damage — betray a basic failure in our municipalities’ most fundamental duty: to protect the safety and property of its citizens …” https://www.erichjprince.com/opeds3 daily 0.75 2021-03-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6051092944d46116c0b54108/1616010330812-BX07LW534H0G7C558ZU9/twitter_charles-1137349-unsplash.jpg.550x380_q85_box-0%2C608%2C3648%2C3143_crop.jpg Op-Eds3 - Twitter: A News Network in Its Own Right? Media Village - 03/11/19 “President Trump isn't the only one. Twitter has become the platform of choice for much of the political and so-called commentary class. Scrolling through Twitter and adding one's two cents …” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6051092944d46116c0b54108/1616184444044-DRT6ZOQ76MOC7NLXDU50/flags_3748-792x362.jpg Op-Eds3 - Where Are the Flags in U.S. Universities? Merion West - 08/08/16 “Over the course of recent visits to several American colleges, I have been surprised to encounter an abundance of flags and banners brandishing foreign nations and various advocacy groups …” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6051092944d46116c0b54108/1616015277948-1F8OM4789U8H3PT6L3AA/trumpdonald_071818getty_0.jpg Op-Eds3 - Is a presidential appointment worth the risk? The Hill - 02/12/19 “Seated just across the aisle from the Supreme Court justices at last week’s State of the Union were the members of President Trump’s Cabinet. As the headlines were quick to tell us, the Cabinet …” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6051092944d46116c0b54108/1616173333517-J4HBZQGA0MR5IZY2OYC2/photo-yale.jpg Op-Eds3 - The Dangers Of Yale Renaming Its History Hartford Courant - 12/12/18 “This past weekend, the Yale Corporation renamed one of its residential colleges for computer scientist Grace Hopper, dropping the name of John C. Calhoun, whose political philosophy included …” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6051092944d46116c0b54108/1616184388248-Y5HU0U11WCZQS1FSSZ2Y/airport-security1120-960x651.jpg Op-Eds3 - Does the TSA Go too Far? Merion West - 05/10/17 “Has the federal government not yet overstepped its boundaries when it uses radiation to strip-search its citizens each time they fly and frisks them as they go to football games?” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6051092944d46116c0b54108/1616009972905-37CF417J0GTH1X25GLP6/jakub-gorajek-173097-unsplash_p9LH4Vs.jpg.550x380_q85_box-17%2C0%2C631%2C427_crop.jpg Op-Eds3 - Is Funding the "Policy Mags" an Act of Charity? Media Village - 02/12/19 “And so goes The Weekly Standard. On December 14 its owner, Clarity Media Group, announced that the conservative magazine's December 17 issue would be its last …” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6051092944d46116c0b54108/1616009926403-A5HSAGVYALS9ZYY29VUR/government_andy-feliciotti-1264256-unsplash.jpg.550x380_q85_box-0%2C543%2C5084%2C4074_crop.jpg Op-Eds3 - Coverage of the Shutdown Reminds Us That Spin Rules the Day Media Village - 02/04/19 “On Sunday, January 27, the president took to Twitter, unexpectedly criticizing his favorite network. "Never thought I'd say this but I think @johnrobertsFox and @GillianHTurner …” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6051092944d46116c0b54108/1616172745648-50PBIBAQKSH3LX5YIWOE/dome_capitol_060719gn5_lead.jpg Op-Eds3 - The case for congressional pay raises The Hill - 06/15/19 “Congressional Democrats have withdrawn the proposed pay hike they’d been considering. Even Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), who had endorsed the suggested $4,500 cost of living increase was conscious from the start that it would receive backlash …” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6051092944d46116c0b54108/1616184360156-80OJ4CKFZWEX8PY5K8LS/31949852635_4e173a439d_b-1.jpg Op-Eds3 - Political Journalism: Rarely Scratching the Surface of Life Merion West - 04/26/18 “But the columns that stick with us most of all rarely touch on the polls or the name-calling. Instead, they might be retired Philadelphia Inquirer staff writer Bill Lyon’s ‘viewpoints’ columns, which chronicle the dissolution of his memory as he suffers from Alzheimer’s.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6051092944d46116c0b54108/1616184417661-5XG3AI774NNOANKX9JSL/nixon.jpg Op-Eds3 - Will History See Another “New Nixon”? Merion West - 08/26/16 “However, we must remember the nobler side of Nixon: his choice to decline a full scholarship to Harvard to remain in California and provide for his younger brothers, his tenacious pursuit of the woman who repeatedly repudiated his advances before acquiescing and agreeing to marry him, and his vision for an enduring global peace” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6051092944d46116c0b54108/1616173411719-AA0TRBVO1V53HN5PMBYE/handcuffs-istockl.jpg Op-Eds3 - Congress must address scourge of mandatory sentencing News & Observer - 01/19/15 “In a notable instance of bipartisanship, Sens. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) co-sponsored a bill last session seeking to address concerns about the harmful effects of mandatory minimum sentencing. If it had passed …” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6051092944d46116c0b54108/1616184375196-UQVDSAUT2HW2V5SWLNKT/aerial_view_of_manahattan.jpg Op-Eds3 - Why Are there No Skyscrapers between Midtown and the Financial District? Merion West - 05/11/17 “Is there a better explanation than the traditional answer of bedrock? Some experts claim the origin of the gap in the skyline actually is more related to demographics and discrimination.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6051092944d46116c0b54108/1616009671171-0QGDWW51R1EB4MLMFDTE/government_andy-feliciotti-1264256-unsplash.jpg.550x380_q85_box-0%2C543%2C5084%2C4074_crop.jpg Op-Eds3 - When It Came to the Shutdown, Was the Media Informing or Entertaining? Media Village - 01/25/19 “The late-night comedians have been having their fun. They did the same during the government shutdown in October of 2013, when Conan O'Brien …” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6051092944d46116c0b54108/1616184400563-E5U7GW4J1M0LJJ3ERGBT/thesecrettoless-1.jpg Op-Eds3 - The Loss of Intellectual Humility Merion West - 04/14/17 “It’s amazing how unwilling people are to reconsider their beliefs, even in light of persuasive new evidence to the contrary. Here’s one answer of why.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6051092944d46116c0b54108/1616010447341-JW3H45KNOTXWV125JDYD/good_news_jon-tyson-195064-unsplash.jpg.550x380_q85_box-0%2C1484%2C2672%2C3340_crop.jpg Op-Eds3 - When the Media Goes Positive Media Village - 03/18/19 “Occasionally, an editor acknowledges what we all know to be true: that it's not the viewer's imagination -- the press really does prefer bad news to good news …” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6051092944d46116c0b54108/1616006817680-GGJWBJ7OFMLA70TDGTAC/Handshake_GS_mJwIZht.jpg.550x380_q85_box-13%2C0%2C627%2C427_crop.jpg Op-Eds3 - Is the press prepared for the possible easing of partisan tensions? Media Village - 09/13/18 “When it comes to polarization, perhaps the tide is finally turning. It’s likely no coincidence, for example, that many of the tributes to John McCain gravitated towards stories of reaching across the aisle …” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6051092944d46116c0b54108/1616173445690-JLAB29U5TPHH0N3VP1KR/1200px-Transportation_Security_Administration_seal.svg.png Op-Eds3 - New Voices: TSA's intent to protect us is robbing us of our freedom Orlando Sentinal - 09/14/13 “The Transportation Security Administration, which was created after Sept. 11, 2001, to provide nationalized security at American airports, has expanded its presence to train stations, bus terminals, concerts and sporting venues …” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6051092944d46116c0b54108/1616184347931-JW0TX8MRLUG67YFBWJLG/Congress_in_White-1-960x640.jpg Op-Eds3 - The Biggest Problem When It Comes to Polarization Merion West - 07/27/18 “As Mayor Koch used to say: ‘If you agree with me on 9 out of 12 issues, vote for me. If you agree with me on 12 out of 12 issues, see a psychiatrist.'” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6051092944d46116c0b54108/1616008798089-YIUM1VJ55P0VIH7K5HIA/images_plus_NNm21BS.jpg.550x380_q85_box-0%2C15%2C639%2C459_crop.jpg Op-Eds3 - Something Is Happening in the Commentary Space Media Village - 01/17/19 “In the time since The New York Times published an opinion piece on the so-called “Intellectual Dark Web” in May, Quillette, arguably the standard-bearer of the space, has continued its march forward …”