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Liberal arts survey classes stink.It’s not only that lower-level classes are taught by the semi-qualified and attended by people who’d rather not be there. The true disaster is that many students are fooled into believing that introductory classes accurately represent their respective disciplines.  Because of this, the humanities – among them, philosophy, history, literature, cultural studies, and religious studies – are imagined to be plodding, arcane things concerned with stuffing pupils with facts.  Few things could be further from the truth. The pursuit of the liberal arts and humanities (to improperly equate the two) is absurdly practical and shockingly important.  Far from being the territory of a few intellectuals content to live forever inside the bars of the University, the liberal arts are an ideal path for every college student. Though you’d never know it from taking survey classes, the humanities are more about training in useful skills than they are about passing on knowledge.  This only became clear to me recently.  As an underclassman, I experienced pangs of jealousy when I’d see a suit-clad business student going about campus, confidently striding from one important presentation to another.  “There”, I would dismally sigh, “is someone who’s doing something useful with their...

As you may have heard, if everything goes to plan, Israel will lift the blockade on Gaza's borders any day now. A blockade which Gazans have endured for a year and a half now, suffered through and ultimately has created nothing but one pissed off society.Mark my word: when the blockade is lifted, the rockets WILL stop completely, and Israel will get its peace from it, regardless of those who think Hamas and other factions are so unorganized that this is idealist. The stopping of rockets are the desired results Israel wants, and they were the results Israel was hoping to achieve from a military campaign, but failed to do so. The lifting of the blockade is what will obtain these desired results for Israel, and lifting of the blockade has been the Hamas-demand for the last 1.5 years. It is the the root of the current violence, because its the blockade which has destroyed the daily life of living in Gaza, resulting in shocking unemployment, lack of basic materials and water, and an upsurge in frustration; frustration not blamed on Hamas' role as a government financially incapable of taking care of its people, but Israel and only Israel. No one should forget that or be arrogant of this truth.When the blockade is lifted shortly, be aware that Hamas wins this current struggle, and the Israeli military campaign was all for nothing. The Israeli military campaign was launched as a response to Hamas rocket firing. If these rocket firings were a response to Israel keeping up the blockade, then isn't the blockade at the root of the problem? Isn't this the reason for the rockets in the first place? Hamas clearly stated this, and Hamas is not one to lie about what they want. They blatantly say what they want; westerners know this best.Its all very simple. Unfortunately, most westerners won't put this together, because they can't see the current crisis, which has been in effect for the last year and a half, in its own autonomy. Observers only see every action of Hamas as something that is in paradigm with the vision of a Palestinian state and the original Hamas-charter for the destruction of Israel. The last 1.5 years have been about ONE thing only, and its not a Palestinian state, and certainly not about the destruction of Israel (and I am sure Hamas knows that it won't destroy Israel with rockets). This single demand and desire is about lifting the blockade on Gaza. Real simple (and a very realistic demand). Why do observers miss this very simple inclination?Heres the reason observers miss this point: Because every time Hamas fires a rocket into Israel, the observers logical interpretation for the motive is the original Hamas charter calling for the destruction of ISrael. The social, economic and political spheres, which uniquely define the current events that have been going on ONLY for the last 1.5 years, are simply overlooked and blended into the background of the greater 60 year macro-struggle, rather than the 1.5 year micro-struggle.Western observers view Israel's onslaught into Gaza as part of the current micro-struggle; it being the need to retaliate for Hamas' current firing rockets and their recent denial of renewing the cease fire. However, when it comes to the Hamas entity, western observers only view Hamas through the lens of their macro-struggle, which is...