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Caleb Ringger

Senior
Political Science

Minor in Professional Writing & Rhetoric.
A huge fan of the Steelers and the Trail Blazers. Wants you to ask him about his rankings of US presidents.

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April 2024

Embracing Cross-Cutting Cleavages

By Caleb Ringger
August 28, 2024 03:10 PM
On March 5, 1770, nine British soldiers fired on a crowd of Bostonians, killing five in what quickly became known as the Boston Massacre. The event was one of the defining moments in the leadup to the American Revolution, and it is considered one of the most heinous examples of British tyranny in the colonial era.
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March 2024

A Practical and Moral Case for a One State Solution

By Caleb Ringger
March 07, 2024 03:00 PM
Last December, I wrote about the underlying causes of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, in light of the recent violence in Gaza. Since then, the death toll has risen to nearly 30,000 people, including over 10,000 children [1]. Seventy percent of all homes in Gaza have been destroyed [2]. Millions of Gazans have been displaced, most crowding in the southern city of Rafah, squeezed against the Egyptian border, unable to escape [3]. Israel has promised to launch a ground invasion of Rafah if Hamas does not free all hostages by March 10 [4]. Calls for a ceasefire in the UN have been vetoed by the United States [5]. Israel has been accused of genocide in the International Court of Justice [6]. Experts have called Israel’s bombing of Gaza the most destructive bombing campaign in recent history [7].
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February 2024

Countries Don’t Have Blood

By Caleb Ringger
February 13, 2024 05:00 PM
At a campaign rally on December 16, 2023, Donald Trump made the following statement about the current wave of undocumented immigration at the southern border:
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December 2023

Israel, Palestine, and the Hopelessness of Nationalism

By Caleb Ringger
February 12, 2024 01:48 PM
On October 7, 2023, Hamas militants killed over 1,000 Israeli civilians in the deadliest attack on Israeli soil in its 76-year history [1]. In response, Israel has killed nearly 15,000 Palestinians, mostly civilians, over the last two months. The heart-wrenching violence of the last two months is only the latest chapter in a conflict that has raged between Arabs and Jews in the land of historic Palestine for almost a century.
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November 2023

Patriotism is Progressive

By Caleb Ringger
February 12, 2024 09:13 AM
I’ll never forget an experience I had with a good friend of mine a few months ago. We were walking down the street when a huge RAM 3500 with two American flags propped up in the bed came barreling past us, blaring “God’s Country” by Blake Shelton. My friend looked at me, rolled his eyes, and said, “Geez, I wonder who he voted for in 2020.” The implication was obvious—he must have voted for Trump.
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October 2023

Re-Evaluating Social Contract Theory

By Caleb Ringger
February 09, 2024 02:04 PM
Dozens of controversial political issues divide Americans today. Most of these issues pose important questions about the role and composition of the government—Who should the next president be? How much should the government tax its citizens? What should the government do to prevent gun violence? The answers to these questions are undoubtedly important. But in my view, none of these questions are as important as answering the most fundamental question in politics—why does the government exist in the first place?
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