Dillon McCormick

Writing

Crecimiento con equidad

(This paper was originally submitted as part of Dr. Sonia Lenk’s course on Latin American Civilization and Culture on May 9th, 2019). En Santiago, el capital y la ciudad más poblada de Chile, se encuentra un barrio lleno de rascacielos llamado “Sanhattan”. Como su tocayo Manhattan en la ciudad Nueva York, es un centro de…

Suicide Reduction Policies

(This paper was originally written for Dr. Jeffrey Kash’s Senior Seminar in Political Science, submitted on December 10th, 2019.) Introduction Political actors debate solutions to public problems, preferring to implement more feasible solutions rather than risk spending political capital on a program where the potential results are uncertain. With regard to suicide, several solutions present…

Why Our Generation Sees America Differently

(This article was originally published on wkutalisman.com on April 4th, 2018.) In the aftermath of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, there has been a wave of youth activism in support of gun control. Much has been written about the millennial generation and the nature of our politics, but as that generation ages, it…