The Pacer

Independent voice of the University of Tennessee at Martin since 1928

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A eulogy for MAGA

What started at the bottom of an elevator in June of 2015 ended on the trash-strewn steps of the U.S….

The Year of Paranoia: how trust evaporated in 2020

The Year of Our Lord 2020 might go down as a watershed year in the history of the United States…

Tennessee represents one extreme of the government’s herky-jerky pandemic response

You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink. At least, that’s what I always heard….

Vaccinate yourself against blind trust in authority

The world has never been more on edge over a vial of chemicals. A COVID-19 vaccine, the mythical ambrosia of…

Lessons from the pandemic: density may be the best policy

In the last hundred years, the name of the game in housing and work has been density. Since 2007, more…