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The Amherst Student

Volume 152 • Issue 1

The Amherst Student

The Newspaper of Amherst College Since 1868

Wednesday, March 29, 2023

Jacob Pagano '18

Contributing Writer

Number of Articles: 2

First Article: August 31, 2017

Latest Article: September 11, 2019

Our Fidelities and Obligations Under the Trump Administration

By Jacob Pagano '18

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September 11, 2019

Over the past few years, as the nation has confronted a cruel and irrational president, I have been most dismayed not by the president himself, but by the public servants who have willfully taken active roles in supporting his agenda. I have asked why officials with top educations would lend their hand to — and often provide the legal or intellectual chops to buttress — an administration that blithely harms human life. Finding no good answers, I focus instead on the leaders who offer hope for a

Mask On, Mask Off

By Jacob Pagano '18

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August 31, 2017

In “Between the World and Me,” Ta-Nehisi Coates claims that America was “built on looting and violence.” If this is indeed the case, then the nation has returned to its roots. When we watch videos from Charlottesville and see white supremacists in militant formations, a few questions come to mind: Do they know who Hitler was, and what he did? Have they always lived their lives with a sense of immunity? But the most important questions are perhaps historical, for they might contextualize what

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