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Writing is the best way I know to clarify my own thinking. On any given subject or issue, I usually find my head swimming with a lot of random thoughts, some consistent and some contradictory, which I ...

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, ...