When you place a pod of ready-to-brew coffee into one of Keurig’s squat, iconic machines and press the ‘go’ button, you can be sure of a steaming cup in seconds. Or at least, you could’ve been before June of last year. Early in the summer of ...
Benjamin Koatz
Benjamin Koatz is a third-year from New York City. He enjoys dancing, singing, social justice, computer science and freedom. Political Science and Economics are his guilty pleasures and, when he's not dropping mixtapes or fighting the drug war, he spends much of his free time reading books on theory and articles online. He is a former Editor-in-Chief, now a US writer, and hopes to contribute his skills towards making the publication fair and balanced (lol), and interesting and generally super awesome.
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When you place a pod of ready-to-brew coffee into one of Keurig’s squat, iconic machines and press the ‘go’ button, you can be sure of a steaming cup in seconds. Or at least, you could’ve been before June of last year. Early in the summer of ...
Benjamin Koatz
Benjamin Koatz
On August 9, 2014, Michael Brown — an unarmed black teen — was shot and killed in Ferguson, Missouri, by a white police officer, Darren Wilson. Today, in the Salomon Center at Brown University, there will be a discussion of the recent events in F...
Benjamin Koatz
Benjamin Koatz
On August 9, 2014, Michael Brown — an unarmed black teen — was shot and killed in Ferguson, Missouri, by a white police officer, Darren Wilson. Today, in the Salomon Center at Brown University, there will be a discussion of the recent events in F...
Benjamin Koatz
Benjamin Koatz
John Dennis is running against Majority Leader Pelosi this November.Art by Katrina Machado John Dennis’ next few months look rough. Dennis, a San Francisco real estate agent, is traversing the city trying to generate support for his Congressional c...
Benjamin Koatz
Benjamin Koatz
John Dennis is running against Majority Leader Pelosi this November.Art by Katrina Machado John Dennis’ next few months look rough. Dennis, a San Francisco real estate agent, is traversing the city trying to generate support for his Congressional c...
Benjamin Koatz
Benjamin Koatz
John Dennis is the Republican candidate for California’s twelfth Congressional district. Running on a libertarian platform, Dennis will face Major Leader Nancy Pelosi for a third time this November. Dennis conducted this interview with BPR&#...
Benjamin Koatz
Benjamin Koatz
John Dennis is the Republican candidate for California’s twelfth Congressional district. Running on a libertarian platform, Dennis will face Major Leader Nancy Pelosi for a third time this November. Dennis conducted this interview with BPR&#...
Benjamin Koatz
Benjamin Koatz
BPR’s Benjamin Koatz spoke with George Ayittey, president of the Free Africa Foundation, associate scholar at the Foreign Policy Research Institute and professor at American University. Dr. Ayittey has been named one of the top 100 public intellect...
Benjamin Koatz
Benjamin Koatz
BPR’s Benjamin Koatz spoke with George Ayittey, president of the Free Africa Foundation, associate scholar at the Foreign Policy Research Institute and professor at American University. Dr. Ayittey has been named one of the top 100 public intellect...
Benjamin Koatz
Benjamin Koatz
On YouTube, Defense Distributed (DD) can seem like a troop of disgruntled teenagers. Their first uploaded video features the heavy, grungy metal of Unsane, and a sinister album cover—a limp hand drenched in thick, crimson blood—for a background. ...
Benjamin Koatz
Benjamin Koatz
On YouTube, Defense Distributed (DD) can seem like a troop of disgruntled teenagers. Their first uploaded video features the heavy, grungy metal of Unsane, and a sinister album cover—a limp hand drenched in thick, crimson blood—for a background. ...
Benjamin Koatz
Benjamin Koatz
Walking into MetroMart on Thayer, I pick up my third iPhone charger of the semester. I’m a forgetful person usually, and iPhone chargers seem to have an uncommon knack of disappearing into the gaping maw of the Sun Lab or the SciLi, never to re...
Benjamin Koatz
Benjamin Koatz
Walking into MetroMart on Thayer, I pick up my third iPhone charger of the semester. I’m a forgetful person usually, and iPhone chargers seem to have an uncommon knack of disappearing into the gaping maw of the Sun Lab or the SciLi, never to re...
Benjamin Koatz
Benjamin Koatz
New Yorkers, you are one of the 190 million. If you live in LA you’re in the club too. Houston, Seattle, you can definitely tag along. In fact, almost every major metropolitan area – and all those places on the coasts and borders in between them ...
Benjamin Koatz
Benjamin Koatz
New Yorkers, you are one of the 190 million. If you live in LA you’re in the club too. Houston, Seattle, you can definitely tag along. In fact, almost every major metropolitan area – and all those places on the coasts and borders in between them ...
Benjamin Koatz
Benjamin Koatz
It had its own hashtag, trending on twitter. It halted the confirmation of a widely supported, experienced counterterrorism advisor to the Central Intelligence Agency – an institution almost begging for someone with those credentials to be at its h...
Benjamin Koatz
Benjamin Koatz
It had its own hashtag, trending on twitter. It halted the confirmation of a widely supported, experienced counterterrorism advisor to the Central Intelligence Agency – an institution almost begging for someone with those credentials to be at its h...
Benjamin Koatz
Benjamin Koatz
One of my fellow BPR colleagues ‘outed’ all libertarians as masturbatory Objectivist in a spectacularly erudite, strawman-less and fact-based article, which you can see here. Conflating objectivism and libertarianism, the author went on to claim ...
Benjamin Koatz
Benjamin Koatz
One of my fellow BPR colleagues ‘outed’ all libertarians as masturbatory Objectivist in a spectacularly erudite, strawman-less and fact-based article, which you can see here. Conflating objectivism and libertarianism, the author went on to claim ...
Benjamin Koatz
Benjamin Koatz
Yes. With Election Day less than 12 hours away, I’m not going to try to change your vote through a seriously in-depth, highly-theory-based discourse on the purpose of government, the proper role of the state, and the numerous benefits of workin...
Benjamin Koatz
Benjamin Koatz
Yes. With Election Day less than 12 hours away, I’m not going to try to change your vote through a seriously in-depth, highly-theory-based discourse on the purpose of government, the proper role of the state, and the numerous benefits of workin...
Benjamin Koatz
Benjamin Koatz
As another ironically nice day passes us by, and the reality of actually perhaps having to go to classes at some point finally sinks in, I’d like to take this chance to comment on a disturbing trend I’ve seen in some of the post-Sandy pun...
Benjamin Koatz
Benjamin Koatz
As another ironically nice day passes us by, and the reality of actually perhaps having to go to classes at some point finally sinks in, I’d like to take this chance to comment on a disturbing trend I’ve seen in some of the post-Sandy pun...
Benjamin Koatz
Benjamin Koatz