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(05/22/26 8:05am)
As we approach the 2026 midterms and the 2028 presidential election, one of my biggest fears is that the Democrats will run on the temptingly easy “anti-Trump” platform. The Democratic Party has long stood as a purveyor of constructive, immortalized policy — I want that approach to re-emerge and set our nation back on course. We don’t need more political division and hateful rhetoric. We need more jobs, more housing and a long-postponed, much-needed response to the climate crisis. We need to rail.
(05/22/26 8:00am)
For the first time in my adult life, I will not be voting come Election Day.
(05/22/26 8:15am)
On May 19, Harvard University faculty voted to cap the number of A’s professors could hand out at 20% per course, with an allowance of an additional four A’s per class. This follows months of debate over Harvard’s grade inflation — a “crisis” we’re witnessing at higher-ed institutions across the country. A 25-page report, released last October by Harvard dean of undergraduate education Amanda Claybaugh, concluded that Harvard’s current grading system was “damaging the academic culture of the College.”
(05/22/26 8:10am)
Last week, a writer at the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine reached out to ask if I would speak to her about artificial intelligence. She had read my columns in The Dartmouth and concluded I was a critic, while also asking if I was a member of some kind of anti-AI organization on campus. I was surprised on both counts. At any given moment, you can find me running three different large language models simultaneously, and here I was being accused of being an AI non-believer and a potential member of some technophobe cult. I spent 20 minutes digging through my own archives before understanding the confusion. I had never written against AI as a whole. I had written against AI in specific contexts, specifically art and mental health. Convinced I needed to rehabilitate myself, I wrote a piece arguing that AI is a tool and a college education must teach us how to use it well. Eli Moyse ’27 read that piece and wrote a rebuttal. This is my rebuttal to his rebuttal, but more importantly, a feeble attempt at clarifying that I am neither an AI-denialist nor an AI-romanticist, but a mere realist who dares to hope.
(05/21/26 8:00am)
I grew up in a rural town of roughly 2,500 people among the orchards of eastern Washington state, where driving more than 30 minutes for errands or appointments was ordinary life. A full tank of gas wasn’t a convenience; it was an everyday necessity. You couldn’t opt out of fuel costs the way you might in a city with a subway. The road and the pump beside it were our infrastructure.
(05/21/26 9:12pm)
Re: Verbum Ultimum: We are Missing the Right
(05/19/26 8:11am)
In September, Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression president Greg Lukianoff went on the Megyn Kelly show to accuse transgender rights advocates of intimidating their opponents into silence. Over a period of 30 minutes, Lukianoff alternated between nodding solemnly along with Kelly’s anti-trans rants and chiming in to remind the audience that, under the Constitution, you cannot be compelled to “call [a trans person] by a name that you don’t believe is theirs.” He also claimed that transgender people expecting others to use their names and pronouns is “totalitarian,” that transgender rights have only ever gained support because “people were just terrified of the trans rights activists,” and that formerly terrified people are now “waking up” from their previous support of trans rights. Throughout the show, Kelly promotes her sponsors: a gold company, a matcha tea company and an online pharmacy that offers ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine, controversial medications pushed by right wing influencers as a cure for COVID-19. Participating in this farce, in itself, we would call dishonorable. But even the trans-bashing apparently does not disqualify Lukianoff from what Dartmouth calls “the College’s highest distinction”: receiving an honorary degree.
(05/19/26 8:15am)
Recent digging on Dartmouth’s institutional Claude platform led me to a “team” project section where a seemingly random group of people in the Dartmouth community, intentionally or not, shared customized versions of Claude AI for anyone within the Dartmouth email ecosystem to view and use. My natural instinct was to snoop, and although there were a handful of interesting things there, three different Claude models with meticulous instructions particularly caught my eye.
(05/19/26 8:04am)
COVID-19 marked a massive shift in how America shops. E-commerce became the status quo, and its finger-tap convenience became habitual. Companies like Amazon and DoorDash, which were already thriving in the from-your-coach digital market, set the example for other companies Walmart, Target and Macy’s, all of which prioritized door-to-door delivery or in-store pickup options. As e-commerce took off, the actual mall-shopping experience died.
(05/15/26 8:05am)
Back in October 2025, I wrote a column about Evergreen AI in which I expressed concerns about student safety and the ability of an artificial intelligence to provide emotional support to Dartmouth students. When I wrote the column, I hadn’t even considered the labor implications of training Evergreen, and it seems that those in charge of the program have not either.
(05/15/26 8:00am)
In the last few years, artificial intelligence has consumed education. Teachers have turned to AI to craft curricula, plan lessons and generate exam questions. Students have used AI to complete problem sets, generate essays and code websites. In K-12 classrooms across the U.S., 85% of teachers and 86% of students reported using AI in the 2024-2025 school year. In less than a decade, AI has transformed from a novelty into a default, raising concerns about educational reform to ensure the preservation of critical thinking and logic within our academic system.
(05/15/26 8:10am)
Mold, broken showerheads, flooded toilets, dysfunctional laundry machines, rattling heaters. These are just a few staple rite-of-passage characteristics you’ll find in Dartmouth’s first-year housing, all for the low, low price of $12,579.
(05/15/26 8:15am)
Dartmouth has long served as an excellent testing ground for musicians on their way to global stardom, and Green Key weekend, with its guaranteed audience of 3,000 “spirited” students sprawled across Gold Coast Lawn, has hosted more than its share of them. In an era of fractured musical tastes, the spectacle of an entire student body gathering to hear a single act feels increasingly rare. While that shared experience often feels more special than the music itself, it certainly helps when there is a good lineup.
(05/14/26 8:10am)
“If every person on earth put their biggest problem in a hat,” I asked my friend, expecting a good conversation, “would you keep yours or draw a new one?”
(05/14/26 8:15am)
The Dartmouth has published opinions since 1799. In that time, the section has served as a forum for the defining debates for each generation of students — on war, on civil rights, on the obligations of an elite institution to the world beyond its gates — precisely because we have understood, at our best, that ideas untested by opposition are not ideas at all, but assumptions in fancy clothing. In 1970, when this campus was convulsed by the debate over ROTC and the Vietnam War, these pages published arguments from every corner of the political spectrum, not because the Editorial Board agreed with all of them, but because it understood that the argument itself was the point. We have, at various moments in our history, been that kind of publication. Today, we are no longer at our best.
(05/12/26 8:11am)
Eli Moyse ’27 is right about one thing: Learning is inconvenient. What is even more inconvenient, though, is changing how we learn, and reckoning with what is still worth learning in the first place.
(05/12/26 1:22pm)
The U.S. Presidential Scholars Program annually recognizes 161 graduating high school seniors from a nationwide class of roughly 3.9 million students and is widely regarded as one of the country’s highest academic honors. I was selected as a 2025 U.S. Presidential Scholar. Below is the letter that I sent to U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon, when I returned the medal that accompanied the award because I could not, in good conscience, continue to keep an honor conferred in the name of Donald Trump. The letter has been minorly edited according to The Dartmouth’s style guide.
(05/08/26 12:02pm)
Have you ever been to your undergraduate dean?
(05/08/26 12:02pm)
Re: Professor unintentionally released student information to campus in ‘test’ of Claude’s grading capabilities
(05/07/26 8:05am)
In a Letter to the Editor last week, Ramsey Alsheikh ’26 questioned the manner by which Jewish campus organizations chose to commemorate Yom HaZikaron, Israel’s official memorial day honoring fallen soldiers and victims of terrorism. I understand and agree with his skepticism. I do not know that it is necessary or even appropriate to commemorate another nation’s memorial day in such a manner. The flags stuck into the Dartmouth Hall lawn felt far more prominent than most American Memorial Day commemorations that I have seen. My issue with Alsheikh’s piece is not his weariness of the flags, but the decontextualization of a quote from Yehuda Amichai that comes at the end of the article and serves as the piece’s title, a distortion that ignores the nuance of flag misuse by both sides of the Israel-Palestine conflict.
