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The American Dream is the promise that this country is supposed to offer to every citizen. It is the promise of owning a home, obtaining a stable job and raising a family. However the reality is that the “American Dream” only works when there is an America that is on your side.
A glance at the “2028 Presidential Election” Wikipedia page reveals an interesting dynamic. It may seem premature to speculate on the outcome of an election more than two years away, but it does let the imaginations of the politically curious run wild. Wikipedia lists potential candidates from both parties and groups them into two camps: individuals who have expressed an interest in running and those whose candidacies have only been speculated about by the media.
Admission to Dartmouth, or any top college or university, takes intelligence, diligence and ambition. But an invitation to attend Dartmouth is more than a reflection of those qualities. Every acceptance letter from Dartmouth is a bet. A bet on you and your potential to succeed, or, as the Admissions Office puts it, to “be extraordinary.”
I recently published an op-ed about Evergreen.AI. I mostly agree with what I wrote, but I decided that couldn’t be the last word on my story of why I joined Evergreen. It wasn’t a lie, but it wasn’t the whole truth. I still think Evergreen deserves a chance, but only if students’ stories are driving it.
When it comes time again for Dartmouth students to pick their classes for the upcoming term, it’s not unusual to hear students searching for easy courses to fulfill their distributive requirements. These classes are known as “layups,” supposedly easy-A courses that allow students to balance their heavy schedules with less demanding coursework. It seems to me that the insatiable search for the best layup is often motivated by Dartmouth’s quickly paced quarter system and rigorous course load. However, the more I’ve interacted with campus layup culture, the more futile I’ve found the search to be.
What do we do?
Dartmouth recently announced its partnership with Anthropic, an artificial intelligence company known for its large language model “Claude,” and more troublingly, its budding relationship with Palantir.
Sometimes beauty lies in our inability to completely understand it. You and I could look at the same artwork and take away entirely different messages, and it could very well be the case that neither message would be what the artist intended to say. Evergreen.AI reminds me of this, except that it is neither art nor beautiful, but largely misunderstood and misrepresented. Both the audience and the developers seem to be at odds not only over what it is, but what it could be or was intended to be to begin with.
In a 2001 interview for German television, the late author David Foster Wallace was asked about the state of fulfillment in American society. In his response, he observed:
We should be grateful. Dartmouth writers and those who love them have a new home in town, the “Literary Arts Bridge.” Thanks to an anonymous gift of $1.75 million, the English and creative writing department has inaugurated a space “for writers at the forefront of their creative practice — and for students who aspire to join them.” Rarely does such a noble goal earn a cent of funding. We are more likely to see a new “Center for the Accumulation of Wealth” or “Program for the Study of Winning the Rat Race.” But no, this is money for writers. So, again, we should be grateful.
Getting to meet career politicians is nothing new for Dartmouth students, as programs run by the Rockefeller Center for Public Policy bring famous and influential political figures to our school nearly every week. This year has already seen former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf ’77, former National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan and Sen. Rand Paul, R-Kentucky, come to Dartmouth to speak. But at the end of fall term, our campus got a visit from a different kind of politician.
When I first read JJ Dega ’26’s recent guest opinion, Dartmouth Must Continue to Lead in Health and Wellness, I initially assumed I had been living under a rock. I had not heard of most of the events and people that he referenced in his article — not our chief health and wellness officer, not the Jed Foundation, not even the Seltzer Project that my senior class president seemed so proud of. At first, I chalked these gaps in my knowledge up to the fact that I don’t go out much and called it a day.
From Jan. 15-17, the Student Wellness Center sponsored my attendance at the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators Strategies Conference, the principal higher education professionals conference for sharing harm-prevention and risk-reduction strategies. I spent three days attending presentation after presentation discussing risk mitigation, engaging Greek life students and reimagining big weekends to integrate safety measures.
Re: College adopts ‘institutional restraint’ policy, outlines procedures for department statements
The purpose of politics is to serve the public interest, not one’s own. However, it appears that increasingly in the West, fewer and fewer aspiring “leaders” have a respect or understanding for the offices that they seek. More often than not, they are blinded by raging partisanship, uncompromising ideology and an unquenchable drive for positions of great power. Dogmatic politicians are the faces of politics today, and it seems that fewer and fewer policy-oriented individuals enter the arena.
On New Year’s Eve, President Trump hosted his annual black-tie party at his Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Fla. In attendance were Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Vice President J.D. Vance, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and countless other high-profile guests from the Republican sphere and beyond. The evening featured fine dining, conga dancing, live music and even a live painting of Jesus Christ, which was later auctioned off for a modest $3 million.
In the weeks leading up to — and following — November’s election day, I was constantly surrounded by conversations about New York City’s mayoral election, particularly in reference to Zohran Mamdani. As a native New Yorker, I obviously understood that people would be curious to hear about my opinions regarding the election and who I planned to vote for. What I did find confusing was how much non-New Yorkers seemed to care about — and felt their opinions should matter on — what was very much a local election. I know that Mamdani’s victory mattered. But we should stop extrapolating the New York City mayoral election to the rest of American politics.
On Jan. 7, New Hampshire House Republicans introduced H.B. 1793, the “Protecting College Students Act,” for a second time. The bill, introduced a few days before the Brown University shooting, strengthens the rights of students to keep a gun with them on public university campuses. The bill is divided into two main sections: a) it prohibits public institutions from enacting any policies restricting possession, carry, storage or lawful use of firearms or non-lethal weapons on campus, with no state or institutional permit/license being required for carry on campus, and b) enables anyone “aggrieved” to sue the institution and employees responsible for the violation with the available relief of injunction, monetary damages, attorneys’ fees and minimum damages of $10,000 per action.
Re: Moyse: Bugonia, Inevitability and our Cultural Malaise
I was recently walking through Novack Café and saw a poster advertising a Hood Museum of Art screening of “Bugonia,” Yorgos Lanthimos’ new movie and an Oscars favorite this year. Seeing this poster profoundly disappointed me, because I believe that the film is symptomatic of a deep cultural malaise that has frozen almost all senses of possibility and action in amber.