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2025-2026

Letter to the Editor: On Noa Tishby

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.

Staff Spotlight: Wesley Nugteren

Staff Spotlight: Wesley Nugteren

Staff Writer Gabby Miller ’29 interviewed Wesley Nugteren, Amherst’s new wellbeing and outdoor initiatives coordinator, to discuss his South Dakota roots, his path to outdoor education, and the community he’s building through hikes, foraging trips, and nature-based programming on campus.

Clean Up Your Puke

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.

Welcome to the “Golden Age”

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.

This Title is Clickbait, and I Desperately Want Attention

Managing Sports Editor Joey Supik ’27 unpacks the rise of clickbait, rage-bait, and political grifting, arguing that in a landscape saturated with inflammatory takes, audiences must refuse to reward creators who blur the line between provocation and bad faith.

Burnout: We Talked Democracy to Death

Staff Writer Lucas Silva ’28 dissects Amherst’s paradoxical “commitment to democracy,” arguing that constant messaging about democratic crisis has become so abstract — and everyday campus life so unchanged — that students are tuning out rather than showing up.

Don’t Get Misled by This Election

Staff Writer John Milas ’28 cautions readers against interpreting this year’s sweeping Democratic victories as a clear political realignment, arguing that off-off-year elections often misrepresent national trends.