Maggie Connolly ’21 Journalist Rejected from the HFPA Editor’s note: This article appears in our annual Eggplant Edition, comprised exclusively of satirical articles. We are officially in the thick of the greatest time of year: award show season. It is an exciting year for many newcomers in the […]
The Spire would like to express its condolences to those affected by the shootings in Atlanta, Georgia that occurred on Tuesday, March 16, 2021. We recognize the pain that this tragedy, especially alongside the accumulation of anti-Asian hate crimes nationwide, has caused in the Asian, Asian-American, and Pacific […]
Catherine Yaskira ‘24 Opinions Editor Rush Limbaugh died on Feb. 17. Some people, like Donald Trump, have mourned him: he gave a touching tribute to Fox News in honor of Rush in which he said, “Well, Rush thought we won, and so do I, by the way” and […]
Maggie Connolly ’21 Chief Opinions Editor This week, the United States government will see a change in leadership, both individual and party. That change is long overdue, and much needed in light of both recent events and the events of the last four years. Make no mistake, the […]
December 12, 2020 To the Editors of The Spire: When the editors of a student publication like The Spire undertake to publish a criticism of a “Thanksgiving Letter” that I sent to my students (and which I subsequently published in RealClearPolitics and The Fenwick Review) as they did on December 4, I would not […]
Ethan Bachand ’22 and Kelly Gallagher ’22 Chief News Editor and Editor-in-Chief, respectively Prior to Thanksgiving break, a Political Science professor at the College of the Holy Cross wrote a letter to his students that was later published in The Fenwick Review. Professor David Schaefer, who has been […]
Julia Maher ’23 Opinions Editor Since the beginning of the pandemic and Trump’s subsequent politicization of mask mandates and physical distancing, America has seemingly become divided into two groups of citizens, more or less: those who proactively follow the scientific pandemic guidelines, and those who minimize the severity […]
Joe Barbieri ’23 Opinions Editor Last Wednesday, President Donald Trump granted former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn a presidential pardon. Flynn, who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his contacts with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, responded on Twitter to the pardon by calling it a “Pardon […]
Grace Manning ’21 Opinions Editor Over the past few years, I, along with many Catholics of my generation, have struggled to find reasons to be proud of our religion. Our experience with Catholicism has involved scandal, abuses of power, crime, ostracization and often hate, which features prominently in […]
Jaime Perez ’23 Staff Writer In the wake of the recent racial reckoning that has rocked the United States there has been an impressive spike in the number of individuals participating and contributing to political and social movements across the country. The Black Lives Matter movement is one […]
Julia Maher ’23 Opinions Editor Since Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi founded the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement in July 2013 after the acquittal of George Zimmerman’s murder of Trayvon Martin, some conservatives have profoundly politicized the organization. Contrary to what they think, BLM is a […]
Grace Manning ‘21 Opinions Editor There is a saying that is common in many American households: “No politics at the dinner table”. My family doesn’t ever follow this rule and we have engaged in many a rousing dinner debate, often resulting in someone stalking off and others refusing […]
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