Cartoon: Boomers of Ages Past

Eliza J. Clark Folger Professor of English Judith Frank and Associate Professor of Art & the History of Art Yael Rice reflect on Noa Tishby’s recent talk, highlighting the necessity of meaningful dialogue when grappling with sensitive political issues.

Managing Opinion Editor Olivia Tennant ’27 confronts the campus’ culture of entitlement, arguing that Amherst students’ daily messes expose a larger moral failing: our refusal to recognize the dignity of the workers who sustain our lives here.

Assistant Opinion Editor Caroline Flinn ’28 investigates the White House website’s increasingly propagandistic rhetoric, revealing how emotionally charged headlines and triumphalist slogans blur the line between official communication and partisan spectacle.