The Wildcat Tribune

You’re missing out on the deal

Armaan Rashid, Editor-in-Chief • May 15, 2018

Dear Reader, All this talk of a “polarized” and “divided” nation is misleading: if all politics is just a negotiation of sympathies, and it is, we’re only divided because this is the first...

You’re missing out on the liberal bias

Armaan Rashid, Editor-in-Chief • March 8, 2018

Dear Reader, Reality has a stupidity bias. To be perfectly clear, bias is the enemy of objectivity, objectivity is truth and truth is good journalism. So here we sit in the midst of failure, all...

You’re missing out on a history

Armaan Rashid, Editor-in-Chief • March 3, 2018

Dear Senior, What we forget — among other things — is that Leland Stanford was, in the last decade of his life, a vehement anti-capitalist. Yes, the same Leland Stanford that was an industrial...

You’re missing out on the conspiracy

Armaan Rashid, Editor-in-Chief • February 1, 2018

Dear Reader, There’s a reason for everything that’s torn up in your life, and I’ve figured it out. It’s THEM. Those guys over there — you know the ones, the Big Bads, the bad ones who did...

You’re missing out on pop music

Armaan Rashid, Editor-in-Chief • November 30, 2017

Dear Reader, Ted Cruz is the Zodiac Killer, tap water is mind control, Hillary Clinton is Satan, the earth is flat, whatever. That’s all noise. The real conspiracy, dear reader, is FM radio. Here’s...

You’re missing out on fascist dog whistles

Armaan Rashid, Editor-in-Chief • October 26, 2017

Dear Reader, If you believe in freedom of speech, you might be a fascist. Okay, okay, give me a second to explain. The thing about 2017-era fascism — a term I’m using to encompass white supremacy,...

You’re missing out: a brief introduction

Armaan Rashid, Editor-in-Chief • September 28, 2017

Dear Reader, Your F.O.M.O. is justified. “Experts” might have you believe that your Fear of Missing Out, also known as “the uneasy and sometimes all-consuming feeling … that your peers are...