Category: Opinons

"…[T]here is such an infinite number of totally new names of new things to learn, that at first it seemed impossible for me to master them all. If you have [...]

To the Swarthmore campus community:
As leaders of the Swarthmore College Jewish community, we were saddened by the recent acts of hatred directed toward a Palestinian student on our campus. We [...]

In the classic film The Third Man, Holly Martins, an American writer of dime novels, goes to postwar Vienna looking for his old friend Harry Lime, who has gotten involved [...]

Thanks to the Internet, I now know that I'm a self-obsessed and sex-hating harpie in serious need of therapy, and also that I am a unique little snowflake whose sexual [...]

This past spring, primary elections were being held in the United States and races won and lost by candidates seeking to be their parties’ nominees to the presidency. During [...]

My name is Dr. Strokes, and I'm your newest sex columnist.
Here are some things you need to know about me:
1. I'm a white female who was raised in a wealthy [...]

Dear Diary,
The way things work here is very confusing for a simple-minded guinea pig like myself. I feel like I suddenly dropped down the Rabbit Hole in Alice in Wonderland. [...]

It was only the second night here, after a celestial navigation lecture, that we looked up through the hundred-foot-high riggings of the three-masted C.W. Morgan and pointed out the stars. [...]

When I boarded my plane out of Austria, the newspapers were breathlessly reporting on the just-broken story of Elisabeth Fritzl, an Austrian woman recently freed from the windowless basement where [...]

This is Stephanie Appiah's last column from Buenos Aires
After two bouts of gastroenteritis — yes, I got it again last week, and was sick for days — I give up [...]