Vinayak Kumar

Recently, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about what it would take for someone of one political persuasion to ‘switch sides’. There’s a lot of merit to the idea that we, especially at Penn, restrict ourselves to ‘echo chambers’ where our communities and groups are just reflections of our own backgrounds and beliefs.

The rise of multiculturalism has created an environment where all backgrounds, and by extension all opinions, are given equal standing.

There is a lot of hot debate between the political left and right about social justice issues, and a particularly concentrated debate in higher education institutions.