Talk of the Quad
It’s hot again today
This summer, I was at dinner with a friend when we heard Donald Trump had been shot. It was hot and humid and foreboding, as much of the summer had been, and we had made the mistake of sitting outside. …
Political Diversity
Enterprise
Bowdoin College Conservatives aim to fill space left by Bowdoin Republicans
Repeated surveys have indicated that the majority of Bowdoin students identify as liberal-leaning. The Bowdoin College Democrats have 219 registered members—more than ten percent of all students. For many years, students who identified on the opposite side of the spectrum …
Lecture
Cichocka explores the impact of narcissism on political landscape
Aleksandra Cichocka, a professor of political psychology at the University of Kent in Canterbury, U.K., believes that psychology has failed to account for narcissistic behaviors in rising right-wing populists.
In the VAC Beam classroom Monday, Cichocka explained that for the …
Arthur Brooks
‘It’s very hard to debate anything these days’: reopening the conversation over political diversity and free speech at Bowdoin
In early March, Arthur Brooks, a professor at Harvard Business School and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, spent three days on campus as the College’s Joseph McKeen Visiting Fellow for the second time. His visit brought an ongoing national …