It doesn’t take long for many to point out to me that I am often cynical. This is something that I have come to realize in my past three years at Holderness, and with only a few days left on this campus, there is no better time to share my reflections on what Holderness has taught me about conforming ...

I’ve spent the last month, or rather six months, avoiding facts, and, for once, I’m not talking about facts about our government or how we’ve finally gone and messed up the earth enough that there’s no going back. I’m talking about the facts regarding the next week of my life and what happen...

Rumor has it that Mr. Herring was an excellent cadet. That's according to his battalion commander during his time in the ROTC program at the University of North Carolina,  Colonel (Ret) Gregory Daddis, PhD (pictured right). Dr. Daddis, now a professor at Chapman University in Orange, California, ha...

I’ve changed a lot these past nine months in Spain, and it’s not the kind of change that my mother (and every other adult) always remarks upon at the end of each school year about how much I’ve grown and what-not; it’s internal and profound and I don’t even know if I could recognize myself as ...

Childish Gambino's song “This is America" has become a sensation partially because of its infectious rhythm and partially because of the way it confronts issues of today’s America in the lyrics and music video. Throughout the song, artist Donald Glover, also known as Childish Gambino, mixes the ...

Recent affairs at Holderness, like the recent student involvement in an anti-gun march, a photo of it on the school’s Instagram account, and student’s reactions to the matter have made politics a prevailing discussion topic. What many students and faculty believed to be a primarily liberal stude...

Enraged Palestinians protest along the fence lining the border of Gaza and Israel on Friday, April 13th, in hopes of returning to the lands that they believe to have been taken from them. On the other side of that fence stands the Israeli military, who are using violent measures to suppress the protes...

The Trump administration drafted a 25% tariff on over a thousand Chinese products earlier this month. This action seeks to sanction China for its trade practices that, according to the White House, have placed an unfair burden on American industry and trade practices. The tariffs add up to $3 billio...

65. 65 mass shootings since I was born in 2002. These are all shootings that result in the death of 3 or more people. That is 15 years, an average of 4.3 mass shootings per year. How many of these could have been prevented?   The recent shooting at the YouTube Headquarters, where a woman i...