Opinion
The College’s Fires to Put Out
If the United States didn’t already feel like it was figuratively on fire all of
this year, it literally is now. Wildfires have been ravaging the West Coast
since mid-August (in general, since far before then). But over the past couple
of weeks, the fires have been blazing
The World Feels Like It's Crumbling, So What Do We Do?
I am motivated to write this by the announcement of the death of Justice Ruth
Bader Ginsburg, a prominent liberal justice and champion of women’s rights on
the U.S. Supreme Court. The moment that my friends and I received the news, the
energy that had carried us through
Don't Pack the Courts, Improve Them
In early March, when it appeared that Senator Bernie Sanders had clinched the
nomination in the Democratic primary, I wrote that Democrats should come
together to support his candidacy but also push back against his more radical
and less democratic impulses while he was in office. I was later surprised
Seeing Double: Should We Mine the Moon?
As space travel becomes more advanced and efficient, many experts say that
extraterrestrial mining operations are increasingly viable. Earlier this year,
President Donald Trump signed an executive order
[https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-encouraging-international-support-recovery-use-space-resources/]
encouraging companies to develop technologies capable of
Future Karens: A Cartoon by Isaac Streiff '24
Behind the Board: The Editorial Board on Amherst’s Admissions
The Amherst College community is about four weeks into its first full pandemic
semester. So far, one thing has become very clear: Covid-19 has created a moment
of disruption that has enabled Amherst College to expedite changes that were
once cripplingly impeded by bureaucracy.
This week, as with every