Zoe Gast, Senior This past Wednesday was president Biden’s second State of the Union speech and his first since the midterms, where control of the house was awarded to the Republican majority. Although this historical speech was listened to intently by families around the country, the atmosphere on the floor differed. Over Biden’s 73-minute speech,…
Category: Opinion
Update on Tensions between U.S. and China
Talia Schwartz, Senior Recently, in response to a Chinese billionaire buying 130,000 acres of land in Texas with the goal of building a wind farm, the state of Texas passed a ban on infrastructure projects that could have potential ties to China. Furthermore, to widen the ban on infrastructure connected to China, a Republican state…
The Funk Will Prevail Album Review
Benny Burns, Junior Kaelin Ellis’s album THE FUNK WILL PREVAIL starts with the song BUCK, giving you a message to not skip the song, as “any other movement will disrupt the force that is now about to enter your bloodstream, that force is known as The Funk.” the song then starts the album with a…
Glass Onion Movie Review
Benji Boyd, Sophomore A glass onion: an object that seems densely layered, but in reality, the center is in plain sight. Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery is the sequel to the adventures of the world’s greatest detective, Benoit Blanc. Since his debut in Knives Out (2017), the world has been reawakened to the wildly…
Social Media in Excess
Gretchen Duros, Special to the Headlight Imagine what it would be like if everyone on the internet woke up one day and collectively decided to hate you. On the internet, people who have too much time on their hands will pick on one person. Canceling and shaming someone on the internet without a valid reason…
Violent Video Games Don’t Equal Violence
Matthew Lewis, Special to the Headlight Have you ever played video games to relax, spend time with friends, or just have fun? Did any of those games involve violence? The Illinois General Assembly defines “violent video games” as online games that are “encouraged to perpetuate human-on-human violence in which the player kills or otherwise causes…
People Like Us: David Byrne’s True Stories
Benjamin Burns, Senior David Byrne’s True Stories could have been a satire very easily. He could have looked down or made jokes about the fictional small town in Texas he built his first and only movie around. But he didn’t. He made an exceptional movie that does more than that. It may be built around…
Reviewing the British Isles
Ila Bumagin, Junior Have you ever been to Ireland? Scotland? If you haven’t, you should seriously consider it. There’s ocean views, there’s castles, there’s history, there’s sheep and cows – who could ask for more! Oh wait, there’s universities. How could I forget? Over Thanksgiving break, I was lucky enough to go on vacation to…
If We Were Villains: The Perfect ‘Dark Academia’ Book
Benji Boyd, Sophomore “You can justify anything if you do it poetically enough.” – M.L. Rio What is dark academia? An aesthetic centered around the moody and gothic aspects of academic study, dark academia celebrates literature, history, philosophy, and other studies through their darkest elements. It’s the gargoyles that keep watch over a college library;…
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Review
Benji Boyd, Sophomore For ten years, the Harry Potter franchise had the world in a chokehold. Fans eagerly awaited each new installment until 2007, when Harry’s epic lifelong battle with Voldemort came to an end. Or so we thought. Nearly eleven years after that – enough time for a baby to be born, raised in…