Luke Decker

Bio

I am curently an undergraduate student at Dartmouth College studying Government and Arabic.
New Dartmouth Hazing Allegations Cast Shadow Over President Jim Yong Kim's Ability to Lead World Bank
By Luke Decker
The talk around Dartmouth College this week has been a reverberating mantra of the Wall Street Journal’s headline “U.S. Picks Health Expert to Head World Bank” and the Rolling Stone’s “Confessions of an Ivy League Frat Boy.” Within a week’s time of…
Iran Wants to Start War, Israel Wants to Maintain Peace
By Luke Decker
We’ve spent far too much time speculating as to whether or not Israel might attack Iran. Who cares? It’s becoming more and more clear as days have become months that Iran will attack Israel, first. There is no doubt that tensions are high in the…
UC Berkeley, Hampshire, and Columbia: Three Most Politically Active College Campuses
By Luke Decker
According to a poll taken by The Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement, college students are twice as likely as young people who do not attend college to vote in a presidential election. There is a good reason why…
Mitt Romney’s Mormon Values Are His Strongest Point
By Luke Decker
Just over 50 years ago, the United States public struggled to decide whether they were ready for a Catholic to be their next president. Plagued by the thought that John F. Kennedy would be the “Pope’s puppet” in the White House in 1960, American…
Ron Paul Foreign Policy on Foreign Aid and the Middle East is Wrong
By Luke Decker
On December 17, 2010, Tunisian street vendor Mohamed Bouazzi covered himself in paint thinner and struck a match. The sight of his burning body ignited citizens of the Arab world in protest against their leaders’ corruption. TIME Magazine named “the…