The Vanderbilt Torch

Libertarians and Conservative: Breaking Up Is Hard to Do

While most Vanderbilt students were spending their last weekend of spring break hanging out on the beach or building habitats for the homeless in rural Appalachia, this dorky political columnist found himself in Richmond, Virginia for a discussion on political theory with other policy nerds. This is not because I don’t know how to have a good time or am averse to helping the poor, but because the trip was free and the hotel was swank.

Dust Settles on Kennewick Man

In July of 1996, college students Will Thomas and Dave Deacy waded along the Columbia River in Kennewick, Washington where the annual boat race and festival were being held. As they paused to finish their beers, Will stumbled upon a round rock, which he jokingly told Dave was a human skull. Pulling the rock from the muddy water, he found out he wasn’t joking after all. He had just discovered the remains of a long-dead human who would eventually become known as Kennewick Man, a subject of scientific wonder and political controversy whose final fate may have finally been determined.