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The Phoenix: The independent newspaper of Swarthmore College since 1881

Bill Fedullo

Columns/Opinion

You may ask yourself, well, how did I get here?

I don’t know how you tear a building down. Maybe it involves explosives, charges shaped in such a way that the whole…

April 28, 2016
Columns/Opinion

Climate change is too important to leave to the activists

In my time at Swarthmore, no group’s star has fallen more dramatically than Mountain Justice’s. A year ago, a majority of campus…

April 22, 2016
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Hating Swarthmore, and loving it

I’m from Philadelphia. As a rule, Philadelphians hate Philadelphia. We hate that SEPTA buses always smell faintly of piss and hopelessness. We…

April 14, 2016
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Op-Eds/Opinion

On emancipation and tough Jews

When I was growing up, my mother would often extol the virtues of the “tough Jew.” The tough Jew, unlike the garden…

March 31, 2016
Op-Eds/Opinion

The privilege and discontents of Jewishness

Last semester, in the early morning of the third day of Hanukkah, a menorah was stolen from Sharples dining hall. The burglar—whom…

February 11, 2016
Op-Eds/Opinion

Decision between Trump and Bernie not so easy

“I like Bernie, but I like Trump too,” the woman says, with more than a little irritation, before slamming her phone down…

January 28, 2016
Columns/Opinion

Social media activism might be just a card game

The myriad damage they inflicted upon the world aside, English aristocrats have left us at least one enduring gift: the terms of…

November 19, 2015
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The liberal arts aren’t all about job prospects

On Swarthmore’s website, you can find a page with a rather grandiose title: “Why the Liberal Arts Matter.” If you’re like me…

November 5, 2015
Columns/Opinion

On gun control, left should reflect on its past

For a country founded in revolution, the United States has a strikingly barren tradition of successful armed revolt. In the nation’s two…

October 22, 2015
Columns/Opinion

Do the demands of retribution give us a license to kill?

Content warning: Graphic physical & sexual violence By the time this column is published, the State of Oklahoma will likely have executed…

October 1, 2015
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