In a coffee shop in the United States, community is built through the simple transaction of language. We build connections through our diverse cultures, uniting people throughout the world regardless of borders and ethnicity. However, this moment of shared culture …
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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
I started receiving the photos and videos not long after Zohran Mamdani ’14 was announced as the winner of New York City’s mayoral race. In one, a nine-year-old Pakistani American in Virginia leaps for joy, his mother desperately guarding the …
Editor’s Note, Sunday, November 2, 2025, at 5:40 p.m.: A previous version of this article included the names of the vigil organizers. For security reasons, the names have been removed.
Immediately following Charlie Kirk’s assassination, conservative college groups nationwide organized …