A friend told me recently that one of the toughest parts of adjusting to life at Princeton was having to try out for extracurricular activities. Any Princetonian can testify to the validity of this ...

I had a great idea for a column this week. Unfortunately, this isn’t it. After about 20 minutes of deep soul-searching, it occurred to me that some of you might be wondering how I write these columns.

Twenty years! I’ve been writing this column for 20 years. As I said back on the 15th anniversary, “except for teaching, that’s the longest time I’ve ever devoted to a single activity.” And I’ve ...

I’m supposed to write a weekly opinion column for The Daily Northwestern. My first piece is due tonight, and I still don’t have any ideas for how to introduce it! What should I do? It seems only ...

It’s 3 a.m. and I’m sitting in my cramped dorm room in Perkins Hall, trying to write an opinion column about why Taylor Swift is overrated. The problem is that I don’t know much about Taylor Swift, ...