The Pacer

Independent voice of the University of Tennessee at Martin

Columns

The politicization of phobias

Politics and psychiatry are unlikely bedfellows, but in the 20th century they became quite cozy. Sometimes that came in a…

Columns Opinion

Who runs the world? Journalists!

If you’ve read the title, you know what this is about. And no, this is not a self-congratulatory piece of…

Advice for young conservatives

This is a trying time to be a young, conservatively-minded person. First, there is the politics, which everyone automatically goes…

Columns Opinion

Presages of a police state

Everyone gets the sense these are dark times in America. Although I am noted for my habitual pessimism (comes with…

Should anyone have the right to speak privately over the internet?

Whether it’s attacks from the right or left, internet privacy and security is a hot political potato these days. During…