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It’s been tough watching the faculty activism at Bowdoin over the last few years. The op-eds, the public lectures, the postering, the encampment support, the stacking of faculty governance committees, the social media posts. This fanatical, obsessive streak within the …
I often lose touch with the soil I stand on. Thus, I offer an American parable.
It was an American summer day. The fields of corn had emerged from the damp earth and the birds sang through the first rays …
The November 7, 2025 op-ed piece authored by the “40+ members of the Bowdoin Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine” (FSJP) betrays a misguided, fragmented and woke interpretation of Middle Eastern history and recent events. It accuses Israel of …
The other day I was checking out this concert I wanted to go to and clicked “view tickets.” Simple enough, right? Wrong. It only allowed me to pick two or more tickets—apparently, going alone wasn’t an option. Not that I …
Bowdoin’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion is wrapping up another “season” of its much-publicized “Viewpoint Exchange” series. And it’s been tough to watch.
Let’s be clear: we are not condemning the individual speakers. While we may disagree with some of …
It could be argued that the entire Bowdoin experience is meant to push students to grapple with complexity, to learn how to construct arguments and build one’s views through uncertainty and debate, “To gain a standard for the appreciation of …
To the editors,
I experienced the November 7 op-ed “Mamdani’s lesson” as divisive and hurtful. I am saddened by how the authors frame the historic election of a Bowdoin graduate to the office of mayor of New York …
There’s nothing quite like doing a track workout in the early morning. The smell of wet track blown over by the morning breeze. The pounding of red-dyed trainers reverberating around you. The rapid breaths of your teammates as they keep …
To the editor,
In their article, “Mamdani’s lesson,” the 40-plus unnamed members of Bowdoin’s Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine (FSJP) state that a majority of the Bowdoin community are of the opinion that Israel is guilty …
Elections are a barometer. While this week’s elections don’t tell us everything, they do tell us something important: Zionism’s extraordinary power on U.S. life is coming to an end.
One of the rules of modern U.S. politics is that criticizing …
