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The Troubling Rise of AI “Performers”
Through the past two years, artificial intelligence (AI) has threatened to replace every facet of humanity that it can. It has forced writers to change…
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Smallest Hill: Let’s Stop Allowing Child Labor in the Form of Child Actors
I’m watching Season Two of The Last of Us (there will be no spoilers in this piece!) over the summer with some friends, and we…
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AI Psychosis, Delusions, and the Digital Condition
According to the Merriam Webster Dictionary, psychosis is defined as “a serious mental illness characterized by defective or lost contact with reality often with hallucinations…
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Moonshine and V8s: how Prohibition made NASCAR
This article initially appeared in a print issue of the Monitor released Oct. 31, 2025. For as long as cars have existed, there have been…
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The Smallest Hill: Why I Can’t Stand Horror Movies
This article initially appeared in a print issue of the Monitor published Oct. 31, 2025. I’ve wasted hours of my life watching horror movies. I…
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Ghosts Aren’t Real (…and that’s okay)
This article initially appeared in a print issue of the Monitor published 31 Oct. 2025. Every October, campus gets a little weirder. Someone swears their…
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