Menna: The Courage to Resist
(01/13/26 9:15am)
“The strength and powers of despotism consist wholly in the fear of resisting it.”
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Montalbano: Rocky Needs an Upgrade
(01/13/26 9:30am)
Dartmouth has a storied relationship with the primary process here in New Hampshire. As a long-standing “first in the nation” primary state and well-known for bucking national trends, New Hampshire has had a disproportionate impact on federal politics in America. Thus, the nation turns its eyes on New Hampshire every election season, eager to have a glimpse of the electoral surprise the Granite State often seems to deliver.
Alahyari: The Case of Bari Weiss Is a Warning About Institutional Restraint
(01/09/26 9:15am)
When the College announced its policy of institutional restraint in December 2024, it entered uncharted territory. There was no precedent for such a policy in Dartmouth’s history, which left room for much debate over its implications. Now, however, the policy has found its analogue in a surprising place — not at another university, but at the CBS headquarters in Midtown Manhattan. And yet, rather than reassuring us about Dartmouth’s policy, the case at CBS News is quickly becoming an omen about what exactly could go wrong with institutional neutrality at Dartmouth, and how a policy designed to promote free speech could be co-opted just as quickly to restrict it.
McKenna: Context Matters When Discussing Greek Life at Dartmouth
(01/09/26 9:30am)
As the 2025 summer president of Dartmouth’s Interfraternity Council and a member of Greek Life at Dartmouth, I feel as though I have a unique perspective from both a macro and personal level that I’d like to share in response to The Dartmouth's article about Greek Life.
Taneja: Think Thrice Before Dropping Out To Join The Tech Craze
(01/08/26 10:00am)
The other day, another Dartmouth ’27 announced they were leaving, after receiving the first round of funding of venture capital for their start-up from an alum. They join at least five students from the Class of 2026 who departed after admission to Y Combinator. All of them, unsurprisingly, are building artificial intelligence business-to-business, software-as-a-service companies. I love that Dartmouth is generating entrepreneurs, and I have written in the past about the need to recognize them. However, I am critical of how some glorify leaving college and treat it as a rite of passage in building a successful business.
Arzoumanidis: Crack Open A Book
(01/08/26 9:15am)
The Dartmouth Green is the heart of Dartmouth’s campus. It’s quintessentially college: on a warm, sunny day, students populate the Green playing various games, doing homework and catching up with friends. Lately, however, it feels one activity has been missing: reading. Even though I have been at Dartmouth for just over a year, I can count on one hand the number of times I have seen students reading physical books.
Moyse: The Billion Dollar War For Your Mind
(01/08/26 9:00am)
Upon returning to campus this term, I had a moment to catch up with friends. My winter breaks are generally pretty quiet, so when asked how I passed the six weeks, I usually say, “I read and wrote.” Upon hearing this, two of my close friends earnestly confessed to me that they couldn’t remember the last time they had actually finished a book cover to cover. One of them smirked ruefully at me. “Am I like, totally fucked?” He asked, already seeming to know the answer to his own question.
Menna: The Republic of Bad Faith
(01/06/26 9:15am)
In Part I of this series, I charted democracy’s public decline, showing how Congress’s long retreat from its constitutional role hollowed out the balance of power and accelerated America’s own unraveling. Here, in Part II, I examine what has filled that vacuum: a judiciary that has abandoned its role as a check, an executive that increasingly operates without constraint and states adopting the same habits of impunity. I argue that these institutions now enable the very abuses they were created to prevent, allowing a slow-motion dissolution of democracy in broad daylight.
Chandna: AI: The New Mental Health Saviour on Medical School Campuses?
(01/06/26 9:30am)
Over the last 15 years, I have met a myriad of medical school applicants: some fueled by intense ambition, some exhausted, some used to excelling, but all overwhelmed. As the founder of the medical school admissions consulting company Inspira Advantage, I am familiar with the traditional methods of handling feeling overwhelmed. However, in the last year or so, medical school applicants have begun turning to something else entirely: artificial intelligence.
Hofmann-Carr: Make Polling Great Again
(11/17/25 9:30am)
With the 2025 elections now behind us — and the staggering Democratic wins across the board — we’ve received our first new dataset of polling accuracy since last year’s presidential election. American politics moves at nearly the speed of light, so reflecting back 12 months can be a formidable effort. But two key names are bound to ring bells for the political junkies far and wide: Ann Selzer and Nate Silver. Both of these pundits saw sweeping success in predicting election outcomes in the past but chose to take divergent paths in last year’s presidential election. While the heydays of these two are more likely than not behind them, they still embody the good and bad of election forecasting and an alarming trend that plagues the profession: herding.
Roberts: Why Evergreen.AI Deserves A Chance
(11/17/25 9:45am)
Editor’s Note (Jan. 29, 11:55 a.m.): Upon discovery that the author was compensated for his work, this article no longer meets our editorial standards.
Menna: Learning the Shape of a Place
(11/17/25 9:15am)
One term into my Dartmouth journey, I am struck by how the “college experience” has at once stayed extraordinary and, in certain ways, already become ordinary. While it is early enough that some new things I notice still make me feel slightly off-balance, patterns are beginning to take shape.
Berlin: The Facebook Parent Pandemic
(11/17/25 9:00am)
Calling all students, the Dartmouth parents’ Facebook group chat has leaked your personal information. Your father seeks comfort from 3,800 of your peers’ parents because it is 11 p.m. and you are not in your dorm room. Your mother posts about the mold growing in your closet and shares that you enjoyed the streakers during finals, while your father educates parents about the Leydard Challenge. As for upperclassmen who live off campus, you think you’ve been spared? Wrong. Your parents are reporting about your rabies shots after “two bats made their presence known inside the house.” While one mom crowdsources the best barber in Hanover for your curly hair, another shares how lonely you are and seeks a calculus tutor because “the TA simply has not provided the support we need.”
Clark: An ‘Easy Solution’ for Some, Exclusion for Others: When Accessibility Is Treated as an Inconvenience
(11/14/25 9:00am)
In “Verbum Ultimum: Make More Classrooms Device-Free,” the Editorial Board argues that banning laptops and phones “would be beneficial for all of our learning and mental health.” I understand the concern about distraction in class. However, for many disabled students, so-called “device-free” classrooms do not promote learning or focus. They exclude us from it. The Board claims that banning laptops and phones is “an easy, evidence-backed solution” for better learning. Easy for whom? Certainly not for disabled students who depend on technology for access and learning.
Opinion Asks: Evergreen or Nevergreen?
(11/13/25 9:00am)
Last month, Dartmouth announced an AI mental health resource called Evergreen.AI. The initiative is an AI chatbot aiming to “help students flourish by providing personalized guidance and support in real time.” The first chatbot will debut in December while, according to the College, “the fully generative, more personalized chatbot debuts for testing at the end of 2026.” The price tag is estimated to be $16.5 million, which will be funded by parent and alumni donations. While some students have welcomed the potential to increase mental health accessibility, others have expressed concern about de-personalized mental health care. We asked our writers, how do you feel about Evergreen.AI?
Menna: Democracy Also Dies in Daylight
(11/11/25 9:15am)
“Democracy dies in darkness” is the slogan of The Washington Post, which the paper adopted in 2017 after being used by its lionized reporter Bob Woodward for years in reference to Richard Nixon. But democracy doesn’t just die in darkness. Today, democracies also die in daylight — under studio lights, on cable news panels and at press conferences — not in secrecy, but with everyone watching and no one acting.
Taneja: An Opinion About Opinion
(11/11/25 9:00am)
Someone recently asked me why anyone should read my opinion columns. The exchange made me question everything that I had ever written in the past year. Who am I to say that the Co-Op is expensive without having taken a single economics class? Why should I be the one to criticise our obsessions with exclusivity while obsessing over a fraternity myself?
Moyse: Dartmouth Wellness Is Making Us Sick
(11/07/25 9:15am)
In public bathrooms across campus, students can find “The Stall Street Journal.” It’s a series of posters produced by the Student Wellness Center offering students advice and help on a variety of topics. This term, they posted a new issue called “Doomscrolling Detox.” There are a couple of different designs, but they all convey the same message: that news and social media can be overwhelming, and it’s essential to consider your feelings and take precautions to avoid getting overwhelmed while scrolling through social media.
Davis: Woke Men, Wake Up
(11/07/25 9:00am)
A few weeks ago, I was sitting next to a group of boys at the meeting of a liberal campus political organization. They were discussing how they could collaborate to vote in the club’s elections to ensure that they were all elected, which would have resulted in a freshman board with no women. They seemed to either not realize that that is what the result would have been of their plan or, even more problematically, they understood and saw no issue with that outcome. In that conversation, I heard the same young men discussing how they might skirt their mandatory Sexual Violence Prevention Project training, which is a four-year sexual violence prevention curriculum implemented for all Dartmouth students. One said they would play training videos on their laptop while the club meeting went on. Another said that the training didn’t apply to him because he is dating someone and doesn’t drink alcohol.
Muller: Lest the Old Traditions Fail
(11/06/25 9:15am)
Like many Dartmouth students this past Homecoming, I was disappointed to hear the College’s plan to supplement the traditional bonfire celebration with a light and laser show. I still vividly remember my freshman-year Homecoming. Huddled together, my friends and I stared in amazement, the heat radiating off of our awe-filled faces and warming us against the chilly New England night. We were staring at 137 years of Dartmouth tradition.