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Incendiary opinions and factional partisanship. There exists a collapse of democratic deliberation and a growth of resentment in our political dialogue. One Cambridge study found that polarization has increased by 64 percent from 1988 to 2024, with almost all of …
Most journeys in civic life don’t begin at five years old, but on January 19, 2010, I brought my kindergarten class’s teddy bear to the polls.
I didn’t really understand what the election was about (or that you’re not supposed …
Despite some complaints about limited dialogue on campus, there are a fair amount of clubs worth parsing through that have been created to provide a space for people to discuss ideas freely. Due to the nature of this column, I’ve …
On Thursday afternoon, students, faculty and community members gathered in Kresge Auditorium to hear a conversation between Jonah Goldberg and Tyler Austin Harper. The talk, titled “The End of Conservatism?”, is the latest event in the Viewpoint Exchange speaker series. …
On March 4, The New York Times’ political columnist Jamelle Bouie spoke in Kresge Auditorium as part of the Tom Cassidy Lecture Fund and Viewpoint Exchange speaker series. Bouie, previously a chief political correspondent for Slate Magazine before joining the …
While it is impossible to conceptualize America in a manner that honors the wild diversity of hundreds of millions of lives, it is clear our country is in need of healing. To this end, it may be helpful to think …
The immigration discourse has been loaded for a very long time, and it has not become any less polarizing. Growing up as the child of immigrants, it never quite made sense why. What was so bad about people like my …
In “The Wretched of the Earth,” Algerian decolonial theorist Frantz Fanon wrote: “Each generation must out of relative obscurity discover its mission, fulfill it, or betray it,” Although he wrote this in 1961, this quote could not ring …
We, Bowdoin students, have entered the Dark Ages of learning about Israel. Last semester, contributors to Israel-related campus programming seemed forced to hide face, having to funnel their $80-some thousand dollars through largely anonymous alumni groups and multiple shell organizations…
Those that want to deny the Gaza genocide that’s been unfolding before our eyes would rather speak about anything else. In the pages of the Orient, Neil Urwitz and Alan Christenfeld double down on genocide denial and add some defamatory …
