Marvin Olasky interviewed Eric Metaxas Monday night, on topics of politics and social institutions, and how they relate to compassion. The event, which was attended by over 50 people, served as a appetizer for the feast of Interregnum that is to come this week.
Read MoreI was in sixth grade when I first created a Facebook account. The opportunity to post pictures for people I only partly knew would passively look at seemed revolutionary.But all of that slowly changed. Over a few years, I built up over 1,000 “friends” on the platform, leading to a news feed of people that I had never actually spoken to before.
Read MoreThe House of C.S. Lewis’ walk-list, reinstated to help girls get home at night, has struggled to gather support from house members due to accusations of misuse by women looking to develop relationships with the members.
Read MoreMany church buildings—meant to be houses of God—have become icons of humanity. Reforms in architectural style and vision, emphasizing the role of man over God, have caused this change. A new counter-reformation has been called to fight these reforms and reestablish traditional church architecture.
Read MoreI was first told about The King’s College nearly a decade ago. I was riding in the car with my brother—he mentioned that there was an interesting college in New York where people were studying Politics, Philosophy, and Economics.
Read MoreIn a journal entry on November 21, 2017, I wrote, “I feel like I’m the happiest I have ever been.” This moment of gratefulness could’ve been because Thanksgiving was coming up, one of my friends recently got engaged, or because I enjoyed watching my corgi puppy grow up. However, in retrospect, I know my happiness was due to my good friend, Leah Arrasmith.
Read MoreThe Metropolitan Museum of Art premieres an exhibition featuring one of America’s preeminent landscape painters, Thomas Cole.
Read MoreIt was an unusually lively Sunday morning; thousands of people lined Central Park West, armed with banners that read “NRA--Not ! Representing America” and “#ENOUGH is ENOUGH & TOO MUCH is TOO MUCH.” The March for Our Lives last Sunday drew hundreds of thousands from all over the country to rally support for gun reform, following the most recent deadly high school shooting in Parkland, Fla., last month.
Read MoreAfter five days of silence Mark Zuckerberg—Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO of Facebook—speaks up on Wednesday, March 21 about Facebook’s role in the Cambridge Analytica data privacy scandal.
Read MoreTake a look at Twitter. The top trending tweets are dominated by a man who regularly uses abrasive adjectives like “crazy” to describe people who disagree with him, makes fun of those who are disabled, and calls people “losers”— all while sitting in the White House.
Read MoreC.S. Lewis expert Michael Ward spoke on his thesis that each of the Chronicles of Narnia represent one of the seven heavens of Medieval cosmology on March 12th.
Read MoreIt was freshman year. I had $35 in my bank account, and no idea how to cook for myself. I ventured with my roommate down Exchange Place hoping my card wouldn’t get declined wherever we’d end up for dinner. We noticed a bright colored sign that read, “Weekday Special. Two slices of cheese pizza with a small drink for $4.99.”
Read MoreNotorious graffiti artist known as Banksy made a sensational return to New York City with a new politically-charged mural on March 16. The graffiti piece, titled “Free Zehra Dogan,” defends Turkish-Kurdish artist Zehra Dogan, who has been sentenced to almost three years for painting a political picture of a war-torn Kurdish town under the Turkish flag.
Read MoreTwo new student organizations focusing on politics and Catholicism were approved this past Monday night at the weekly council meeting. The John Quincy Adams Society and The Frassati Society were passed into effect by a unanimous voice vote, and are now available for students to join and enjoy as complete student organizations.
Read MoreLast Tuesday, the House of Susan B. Anthony hosted the Women of Influence Panel, featuring presidential candidate Michele Bachmann, beauty pageant titleholder and author Luisa Diaz, and King’s very own Assistant Professor of Business Kimberly Reeve.
Read MoreDespite freezing temperatures last Saturday, well over 100,000 New Yorkers gathered at 44th Street to begin the six-hour, 35-block march up 5th Avenue. They marched in the name of a variety of groups, from firefighters and soldiers to marching bands and immigrant societies.
Read More“Next stop 86th Street,” says the automated voice over the speaker of the 4 Express Train. It’s 8:21 a.m., according to my iPhone 7. Wearing a 40-pound blue and yellow backpacking pack, with a copy of the 1376-page Norton Anthropology of Poetry in hand, I shove my way onto the packed train. I mumble meaningless apologies to my fellow morning commuters—none of us love being packed like apples in an overstuffed Trader Joe’s produce crate.
Read MoreThe King's College's replacement of the CAMS learning management system with Schoology—officially implemented at the beginning of the spring semester—has prompted mostly enthusiastic reaction from The King’s College community, faculty and students alike.
Read MoreWith toilet paper gripped in her tiny hands, a young girl named Ellen Hunter rips apart the roll, piece by piece. Most kids like to play and make a mess, but this six year old is making a product. She takes the pieces of toilet paper and, along with a little bit of scotch tape, creates the perfect miniature wedding dress for Barbie’s big wedding day.
Read MoreCocooned in the bosom of two monolithic mountains, lies the most technologically advanced human civilization on record: Wakanda. This fictional nation from director Ryan Coogler’s, Black Panther, is self-sustaining and isolationist. Which is fine, because the city is all-encompassing with eccentrically curved skyscrapers, a magnetic-levitation and hyperloop transit system, ethereal usage of flora, a plethora of ethnic diversity from the individual tribes of the state, and a noble philosopher king.
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