Joe Borkowski '08, with Lauren Dubowski '08 of Bryn Mawr one of the co-directors of this year's Senior Company production, describes the play as a "tale of guilt and innocence [...]
Anne Coleman '09, the director of A Midsummer Night's Dream, "loathes the play when it is done poorly." Expanding on this, she explains that many productions of the play are "fluffy, insubstantial, and a waste of a beautiful text." From all
It is a tendency of academics to defend their positions on controversial topics with conviction despite the existence of many similarly talented thinkers who argue differently. David Christensen, an epistemologist [...]
Rachel Sugar '08 speaks about a solo performance about Sylvia Plath she conceived, wrote, and performs.
The vibrant a cappella scene at Swarthmore will be seeing some changes this semester. Two co-ed singing groups are taking measures to deal with pressures on membership: Chaverim shifts its [...]
In the American imagination, our Constitution has attained sovereign status as a great, undefiable stabilizer lasting throughout our history. Kim Lane Scheppele, the Director of the Program in Law and [...]
Starting later today, Swarthmore begins a extensive symposium on "Anti-Americanism, Failing States and American Foreign Policy: Challenges in Contemporary International Politics." The symposium, held in honor of retiring Political Science [...]
While the War in Iraq continues, it can be easy for even the politically aware to forget that the United States is participating in another major armed conflict in the [...]
One of the great disputes in politics, both in theory and in practice, is that between individualist and communitarian conceptions of the state and society. In his talk entitled "Pro-Family [...]
The Economics Department is hiring Erin Todd Bronchetti, a new Ph.D. from Northwestern University, and David Huffman, currently a professor at the Institute of Labor Economics in Bonn.