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Guest Essay: One year into the war in Ukraine

Three things all students must know about the ongoing conflict.

Karsten Stoeber, Guest Contributor • April 7, 2023

Karsten Stoeber is the president of the International Youth and Students for Social Equality chapter at NYU. The war in Ukraine is now over a year old. Already, it is the bloodiest...

‘Ready Player One’ is a cinematic masterpiece, actually

Steven Spielberg’s “Ready Player One” is often maligned as pure commercial noise by hoity-toity cinephiles. Despite the criticism, Spielberg’s love letter to the gaming community upholds the essence of fun action films in the face of pretentious cinema.

Andre Garcia, Contributing Writer • March 31, 2023

Every decade has a defining film that taps precisely into the zeitgeist. For American audiences, the ’60s had “The Graduate,” the '70s had “Apocalypse Now” and the '80s...

College Republicans talk ‘woke capitalism’ with National Review editor

An editor of National Review, a conservative magazine, spoke about economic and social issues at an event hosted by NYU’s College Republicans.

Hope Pisoni and Connor Patton • March 10, 2023

The NYU College Republicans denounced “woke capitalism,” or investing with the goal of making environmental and social improvements, at a speaking event on Wednesday. The guest...

The Miseducation of Business

NYU Stern alum Bill Tsai’s insider trading charge reveals the fundamental flaw of business school.

Cole Stallone, Opinion Editor • August 22, 2019

Bill Tsai, former Stern Student Council President, was charged by the SEC on Aug. 12 with insider trading. They allege he gained nearly $100,000 from the sale of stocks he purchased...

Staff Recs: Best Movies to Watch With Parents

It’s movie night! But with the ‘rents...

Guru Ramanathan, Alex Cullina, Claire Fishman, Nicole Rosenthal, Arts Desk • April 26, 2019

These recommendations are for when your mom wants a movie night and you don’t want to waste an hour going through Netflix trying to find something you’ll both like. “The...

‘We Will Not Settle for Crumbs’

The protests in Paris represent an energized new movement, but the movement itself must be careful of influence from the far-right.

Cole Stallone, Staff Writer • December 5, 2018

The protests in Paris represent an energized new movement, but the movement itself must be careful of influence from the far-right.

A Karl Marx Festival in the Age of Late Capitalism

Alex Cullina, Books & Theater Editor • October 15, 2018

WSN talks to the director of Skirball and curator of the upcoming Karl Marx Festival.

Stern Professor Advocates for the Breakup of Big Tech Companies

Louise Choi, Staff Writer • February 14, 2018

Leonard Stern School of Business professor Scott Galloway made predictions for the technology industry at the Digital Life Design global conference last month. He has previously correctly predicted Amazon's acquisition of Whole Foods, among other news.

Don’t Let Your Superiority Complex Decide What You Buy

Wayne Chen, Staff Writer • November 15, 2017

In a day and age when people buy new gadgets for reasons other than their functions, it is important to reconsider your value system, and purchase wisely rather than impulsively.

Amazon’s Convenient Authoritarianism

Theo Wayt, Contributing Writer • October 2, 2017

This 21st-century form of centralized control is coming not from governments, but from private companies like Amazon, which aims in its mission statement to be “earth’s most consumer-centric company.”

The World According to Rachel: On the Real Deal

Rachel Ruecker, Senior Editor • April 20, 2017

Senior Editor Rachel Ruecker discusses how capitalism has grown from a free-market theory into a complicated and occasionally depressing paradox, but it's hard to see its complexities from inside the bubble.

Corporations Shouldn’t Have Opinions

Henry Cohen, Staff Writer • February 22, 2017

The attempts of corporate marketing teams to cash in on social issues underscores the core deceit of advertising. Obviously organisations like Audi are not uniformly committed to gender pay parity as they proudly proclaim in their cringe-worthy Super Bowl ad.