Most of the 40-plus activist Bowdoin professors in Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine (FSJP), and dozens more like-minded activist faculty, dutifully parrot the accusation of “settler colonialism” against Israel. What makes the theory of settler colonialism so potent …
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 …
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 …