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September 2008
Monday, September 15, 2008
Traveling from New York to Hanover yesterday, I chanced my first experience with a so-called Chinatown Bus—a fast, no-frills mode of transport from Chinatown to Chinatown along the string of multicultural metropolises of the northeastern United States. There are a…
The latest buzz word around Dartmouth has been “sustainability”. It seems that everywhere one goes, students are standing up declaring “sustainability” the biggest issue facing our school and our world. I have often found this claim questionable. After all, should…
worth reading: Aaron Lucchetti reports on the opening minutes of this morning’s historic trading. Earlier, a friend and I had this conversation over email: Him: Just so you know, it looks like [our mutual friend] will lose his job at…
My dear friend Bari Weiss reports for The New York Sun:Senator Obama’s opposition to Columbia University’s ban on the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps is reigniting a campus debate, with several student leaders pushing for a student-wide referendum about whether the…
Roger Kimball responds to the question: what was the point of The New York Times’s three thousand word Holy War against John McCain’s running mate? [T]he point is to discredit Sarah Palin, by evidence of actual wrongdoing, if possible, but…
I don’t pretend (and do not want) to write the articles that levy each necessary blow upon the head of the Democratic candidate each time a delicious piece of knowledge emerges that begs them. But the fact that Fannie Mae…
This line and variations thereupon—this latest comes from Wendy Doniger, a decorated duchess of feminism who holds sway at the University of Chicago, quoted by Bill Kristol today—have given a not-small revelation: a quiet codicil to the cant of Leftist…
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October 18, 2009
When Love Beckoned in 52nd Street
We were at San Francisco’s BIX last evening, enjoying prosecco, cheese, and a bit of music. A full year of inhabitation in Northern California has unraveled to me no decent venue for proper lounging, but… -
October 9, 2009
D Afraid of a Little Competish
So our colleague and Dartblog writer Joe Asch informed me that the D has rejected our cunning advertising campaign. Uh-oh. The Dartmouth is widely known as a breeding ground for instant New York Times successes,… -
September 4, 2009
How Regents Should Reign
As Dartmouth alumni proceed through the legal hoops necessary to defuse a Board-packing plan—which put in unhappy desuetude an historic 1891 Agreement between alumni and the College guaranteeing a half-democratically-elected Board of Trustees—it strikes one… -
August 29, 2009
Election Reform Study Committee
If you are an alum of the College on the Hill, you may have received a number of e-mails of late beseeching your input for a new arm of the College’s Alumni Control Apparatus called… -
August 23, 2009
Fare Thee Well, Tom Crady
And now Dean Tom Crady has precipitously announced his departure from the College after only 20 months on the job. How to read this? By way of background, prior to coming to Dartmouth, Crady had… -
May 31, 2009
Kangaroo Court, Indeed
In an interview with The Dartmouth, alumni-elected trustee T.J. Rodgers ‘70 explained his reasons for declining to participate in future evaluations of trustees up for “re-election,” namely the “kangaroo court” nature of such discussion in…