Essays on The Onion

In the mock press release from, The Onion, the author satirizes how products are marketed to their consumers and how people are gullible enough to believe all that marketers say about their product. By describing MagnaSoles, a fake product, the author brings about humor and...

“Onion stops publishing satire,” reports Matt Stulberg, a writer for The Squirrel, citing The Onion‘seditor, Cole Bolton, and his newfound believe that the Onion has “done more harm than good” (“Onion”). Stulberg goes on to quote several Onion contributors as saying that they “honestly didn’t...

Foregrounded as the hero of the text, Fyodor Dostoevsky’s epic novel The Brothers Karamazov follows Alyosha as he attempts to reconcile his belief in God. One of the grandest dialectics in the novel is between Alyosha and his brother, Ivan, who cannot accept a God...