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(01/23/26 9:15am)
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.
(01/22/26 9:00am)
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.
(01/22/26 11:00am)
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.
(01/20/26 9:00am)
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.
(01/20/26 10:00am)
Re: College adopts ‘institutional restraint’ policy, outlines procedures for department statements
(01/16/26 9:00am)
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.
(01/16/26 9:15am)
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.
(01/15/26 9:30am)
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.
(01/16/26 9:30am)
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.
(01/15/26 9:15am)
Re: Moyse: Bugonia, Inevitability and our Cultural Malaise
(01/13/26 9:00am)
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.
(01/13/26 9:15am)
“The strength and powers of despotism consist wholly in the fear of resisting it.”
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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.
