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(04/03/26 8:05am)
In the opening scene of Aaron Sorkin’s “The Newsroom,” three panelists are asked, “In one sentence or less, why is America the greatest country in the world?” The show’s lead, a famous news anchor named Will McAvoy, attempts to dodge the question but eventually blurts out “It’s not the greatest country in the world … that’s my answer.” He continues, “You know why people don’t like liberals? Because they lose. If liberals are so fucking smart, then why do they lose so goddamn always?”
(04/03/26 8:04am)
There are a number of things that are particularly anomalous about the American college experience when compared to life in the real world. Many college students live in walkable neighborhoods, something that is remarkably rare in the United States. Only about half of college students participate in the labor force, making it one of the few groups of American adults where broadbased unemployment is accepted. One of the activities relatively unique to college students is the broad use of and participation in shared spaces. College students frequently live, study and socialize in shared spaces that are managed by their institution.
(04/01/26 2:56pm)
On Friday morning, I received an email announcement for an upcoming installation at the Hopkins Center for the Arts: “Think you know AI? Meet Being.” The email and the Hopkins Center’s website with information about the event was filled with a cascading series of cringe-inducing red flags. The exhibition features a “virtual entity” trained on “anti-racist frameworks, Black queer poetry and vogue dancing” to get viewers “moving, thinking and collectively envisioning the future.” I didn’t even know where to start, other than to say “what the actual fuck” and file away another reason that the Luddites were onto something.
(03/31/26 8:05am)
“Don’t bother using AI — I’ll catch it” is a sentence I’m sure you’ve heard from your professors at some point in high school and college. It’s bullshit.
(03/10/26 8:45am)
I recently wrote a piece where I criticized the political rhetoric of “dialogue” as perpetuating the status quo. The piece, ironically enough, did end up generating some dialogue on campus, and I’ve since heard many different takes on my argument from my friends, some positive and some negative. In these conversations, I’ve come to realize that my original piece did not paint the full picture — that not only is “dialogue” more often than not a means of maintaining the status quo, but that it is also a way to push it in a particular political direction.
(03/10/26 8:15am)
Last December, Dartmouth announced an institution-wide partnership with the artificial intelligence company Anthropic. While Dartmouth’s agreement with Anthropic has been under scrutiny by students and several faculty members over copyright infringement, a more pressing concern is Anthropic’s relationship with the Pentagon.
(03/10/26 8:30am)
Yesterday was my final night as opinion editor for The Dartmouth. For the better part of two years, I’ve had the opportunity of working with incredibly talented editors, writers and student journalists, and I leave with nothing but appreciation for the tremendous work student journalists have done on our campus and beyond.
(03/10/26 8:00am)
At a Rockefeller Center for Public Policy event last weekend, Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., said, “We have seen too much cowardice from private sector business leaders in America at a time where we need more courage of people speaking out for moral clarity.” Dartmouth’s president and trustees could have learned from these words had they been in attendance.
(03/06/26 9:30am)
Meet Evergreen.AI, Dartmouth’s multi-million dollar cash sink designed to generically “support student success.” The investment aims to provide ready available mental health for students via a chatbot. In reality, the project is too costly, ill-defined and falls short of its lofty goals.
(03/06/26 9:45am)
Last week, I tuned into a John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding talk on Iran by Michael Rubin, a historian of Iran and senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. Much of Rubin’s talk was enlightening: He provided an accurate assessment of several often-overlooked historical factors that are crucial in understanding Iran’s current situation, including the memory of the Iran-Iraq War, the entrenched structure of the Revolutionary Guard and even the legacy of the bygone Constitutional Revolution of 1905. His affinity for the Iranian people and their history, which no doubt stems from his extended time spent in the country, was apparent and admirable.
(03/05/26 9:45am)
Last week, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, impersonating police officers searching for a missing child, arrested Columbia student Ellie Aghayeva in her dorm. Columbia University President Claire Shipman quickly updated the student body, explaining that the Department of Homeland Security Agents had no warrant, and that security footage showed the agents gaining access to the residential building with a poster of an alleged missing child. Following this arrest, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani dropped everything and flew to Washington, D.C., ultimately negotiating with Trump for Aghayeva’s release 10 hours later.
(03/05/26 9:30am)
Each February, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announces roughly a dozen nominees for its yearly induction ceremony. The voting process allows fans to vote — once per day on their website — along with approximately 1,200 industry professionals. Each year, the inductees are announced in April, and a televised induction ceremony is held in the fall.
(03/05/26 9:30am)
More than 10,000 doctoral-trained experts left federal science roles in 2025. That loss will not stay in Washington. It will show up in labs, classrooms and hospitals, including our own at Dartmouth.
(03/03/26 9:20am)
At Dartmouth, ambition has a rhythm: countless recruiting emails, coffee chats between classes, LinkedIn notifications as return offers circulate through group chats. Traditional career paths with clear recruiting cycles, such as consulting, finance, tech, medicine and law feel familiar because generations before us have walked them. There’s comfort in that familiarity, in knowing that the path is set.
(03/03/26 9:30am)
It’s easy to get lost in the Dartmouth bubble and block out the noise of the Upper Valley, to say nothing of the world — so it should come as no surprise to anyone that very few on campus are talking about, or even aware of, the apartheid-free communities resolution on the ballot today in Hartford, Vt. Just a ten-minute drive across the river, the town will vote today whether or not to adopt a pledge “to join others in working to end all support to Israel’s apartheid regime, colonialism and military occupation,” as part of the broader “Apartheid-Free Communities” movement being carried out across the country and around the world.
(02/27/26 9:29am)
As I sat in Filene Auditorium listening to Laura Ingraham ’85, I could hear loud shouts of protest. “DPU, shame on you,” students and community members shouted, in response to the FOX News host’s presence on campus — a former editor of The Dartmouth Review turned Trump advocate.
(02/27/26 9:39am)
Whatever you thought of Leon Black ’73, the new wave of Epstein files confirms he’s worse. In an earlier piece titled “Beilock, Rename BVAC,” I dove into Black and Jeffrey Epstein’s tangled financial and personal relationship. Administrators have yet to express any intention of renaming the Black Family Visual Arts Center — multiple cases of alleged sexual assault and financial connections to Epstein seemingly aren’t enough to warrant administrative action.
(02/26/26 9:40am)
First Charlie Kirk, now Laura Ingraham: the Dartmouth Political Union is certainly on a roll when it comes to inviting controversial speakers to campus. By now the parameters of the debate I am about to enter should be familiar to all: When is it appropriate to give a platform to individuals whose views many consider hateful? Are those who protest such events — such as me, writing this piece from inside an igloo on the Green covered in banners and flags — simply too close-minded, too radical to appreciate the dialogue the DPU is promoting?
(02/26/26 9:29am)
Re: Former U.S. transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg visits campus
(02/26/26 9:35am)
I’ve gone back and forth on the significance of artificial intelligence as a new technology. One part of me desperately wants to cling to the idea that our time period is somehow unique, and that AI will be uniquely apocalyptic in its consequences. However, another part of me, one that knows history, warns me not to be a fool. People have predicted calamity in the face of new technological developments for thousands of years.
