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Opinion

Rural Oakwood, Texas's water tower on November 27, 2024. (Jessica Roppolo/The Battalion)

Opinion: In support of rural America

Joshua Abraham, Opinion Writer December 9, 2024

City life has always enticed me. I’m drawn to beautiful, ancient and modern architecture, and walkable urban cities are the best way to live. I’m enthralled by the social life in metropolitan areas...

Opinion: ‘The Lord of the Rings’ is a Christmas trilogy

Opinion: ‘The Lord of the Rings’ is a Christmas trilogy

Charis Adkins, Opinion Editor December 5, 2024

You’re either here because you already agree with me or because you had a visceral negative reaction to this headline. Either way, I promise you will leave this article satisfied. I have one word...

Do art critics still do their jobs? Opinion writer Kaleb Blizzard argues that modern arts criticism often abandons insightful critique in favor of useless pretension and deliberate misunderstanding. (Graphic by Zoe Rich)

Opinion: Arts criticism culture has gone too far

Kaleb Blizzard, Opinion Writer December 2, 2024

You know the feeling: You’ve just watched the latest blockbuster at the movie theater, and you’re fully convinced that it’s a great film. Even if it’s not an artistic masterpiece, you enjoyed it,...

Left to right: The Blocker building on Monday, Nov. 19, 2024 and the Zachry building on Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2024. (Paola Luzuriaga/The Battalion)

Opinion: Architectural beauty matters

Kaleb Blizzard, Opinion Writer December 2, 2024

A lot of the buildings on Texas A&M’s campus are ugly. Really ugly. Whether you come to know that on the first day you tour campus, your first day of class or a month into your time here, this...

Students holding hands while walking in front of Evans library on Friday evening, September 22, 2023

Opinion: Marry young

Daniel Fu, Opinion Writer December 2, 2024

For ages, people have searched for ways to make their lives more fulfilling —the foremost method: relationships.  Nowadays, relationships take all kinds of lengths, forms and labels. Scariest label...

A display of Skibidi Toilet blind bags inside Target on Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2024. (Jenna Isbell/The Battalion)

Opinion: Why you should gift a Skibidi Toilet toy this holiday season

Kaleb Blizzard, Opinion Writer December 1, 2024

I need to be honest with everyone who’s reading this article right now: I’m a serial procrastinator, especially when it comes to gift-giving. Even if I know weeks or months in advance of an event...

As we’re gearing up for the holiday season, opinion writer Joshua Abraham wants to remind you that we shouldn’t be divided to celebrate. We must put our political differences aside and be joyous together. (Graphic by Zoe Rich)

Opinion: The most wonderful time of the year?

Joshua Abraham, Opinion Writer November 27, 2024

It's the most wonderful time of the year! I love the holiday season with a passion. As soon as Halloween ends, the cobwebs and spiders get exchanged for incandescent lights and a Christmas tree. I can...

Just as roses have thorns, we have things in our lives that disallow us from being loved. Opinion writer Joshua Abraham shows you how our thorns can be used for good and how we can become the rose we are meant to be. (Graphic by Luniqua Louis)

Opinion: The one who picks your thorns gets your rose

Joshua Abraham, Opinion Writer November 27, 2024

Roses are beautiful. They bloom to showcase their vibrant red color. But under the petals, along the stem of the rose lie thorns for anyone attempting to touch it.  A rose is meant to be looked at....

Review: Anora

Review: Anora

Joshua Abraham, Opinion Writer November 27, 2024

Rating: 10/10 Spoilers ahead. If you told me a year ago that a movie about a stripper fighting to marry a Russian oligarch’s son might be the movie of the year, I would’ve laughed in your face.  Fortunately,...

Think looking at life with a romantic, rose-tinted lens will make you happy? Opinion writer Isabella Garcia says romanticization makes life a performance, creates harmful perspectives and promotes self-centeredness. (Graphic by Corynn Young)

Opinion: Delulu is not the solulu

Isabella Garcia, Assistant Opinion Editor November 25, 2024

To romanticize is to idealize; to think something is better — more exciting, interesting or meaningful — than it actually is.  We’ve become so exhausted with productivity being the center of...

Aggies wait in line during ticket pull for the Notre Dame football game at the Kyle Field Plaza on Monday, Aug. 26, 2024. (Chris Swann/The Battalion)

Opinion: Portrait of a tradition on fire

Joshua Abraham, Opinion Writer November 22, 2024

The irony. The absolute irony.  At the same time as the 25th anniversary and memorial service of the 1999 Bonfire tragedy, ambulances were called, people got into physical altercations and students...

“It was awesome. Everyone around me was so nice. I ended up getting first deck — we were inside the barricades. We were sharing experiences, we were all staying up together at night, whenever I needed to go to the restroom they were watching my seat and vice versa. The only thing that I didn’t like is how people felt entitled to boss other students around whenever they had no sense of authority or position, but besides that, I love all the Aggies and just like how God forgives people I forgive all of them as well.”
Elie Merhi, biomedical sciences freshman

We asked Aggies: How was t.u. ticket pull?

Charis Adkins, Opinion Editor November 21, 2024

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