I have found Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a malignant, selfish narcissist since before most of Bowdoin’s current senior class was even born. I’ve despised him since 1996. He thrives on conflict.
It’s 4 p.m., and the sun has set. The roads are icy, it’s quiet and you can feel the cold wind piercing through your L.L. Bean-branded fleece. That’s the nature of winters in Brunswick. During the semester, this atmosphere is …
I know how hard it is to live today. In the past weeks, we’ve watched our own government tear itself apart with a shutdown that held our most vulnerable citizens as pawns. We’ve watched our …
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 …
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 …