Brandon Schmuck

Articles

• Outcry on Overheard: Are Racial Preferences in Dating Racist?

  A week ago, people were angered by my response to a post on Overheard at Carnegie Mellon regarding a white college student with a “thing for Asian chicks.” Regardless of this post’s morality, I felt the need to respond to people crying out racism and call them out on their double standard. Upon doing so, I received a number of messages of people thanking me for sharing a voice less heard, even if ...

  Forum | March 6, 2017
• Presidents’ use of executive orders abuses original intentions

  The countless headlines last week have left a number of Americans questioning the lack of limits on authority that has been granted to presidents through executive orders. This fear is justifiable, as the idea of any individual having the power to make such orders is both frightening and a risk to the welfare of this nation. However, this is nothing new and is something that should have been consi...

  Forum | February 6, 2017
• $15 minimum wage kills jobs, burdens economy

  The nationwide “Fight For $15” movement hit its first major milestone last month when it managed to push McDonald’s into announcing that it would be rolling out touchscreen self-ordering kiosks into all 14,000 of its national locations. Economists long predicted that this could be the eff...

  Forum | December 5, 2016
• Both Dems, GOP offer unsatisfying candidates

  After Staffwriter Caleb Glickman’s response to my defense of the independent millennial, I continue to hold my stance that voting third party is a plausible choice that stretches far beyond what he describes as “idealism.” In fact, in many ways it could be a more rational decision than voting fr...

  Forum | November 7, 2016
• Two-party system limits U.S. voters

  As a response to Staffwriter Caleb Glickman’s four part series defending the two-party system in his column The Pragmatist’s Manifesto, I felt it necessary and appropriate to respond in d...

  Forum | October 17, 2016