Archive for Wade Underwood
Humans not Positions
The abortion debate makes me standoffish. Yes, it’s a controversial topic, but I’ve never liked how it provokes such strong reactions from people—murdering abortion doctors or using illegitimate methods of abortion to get rid of an unwanted baby girl, for example. For those reasons I’ve tried to remain distant from the abortion debate. It has […]
Activism in the Age of Social Networking
In light of the events happening in Egypt and amidst the ever-growing popularity of social networking sites like Facebook, I find this article in the New Yorker to be very relevant: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/10/04/101004fa_fact_gladwell?currentPage=1 Gladwell begins with a vivid account of the Greensboro sit-ins of 1960; the stir it caused and the way in which it sparked […]