Highlights Archives - The Phoenix

Charlie Kirk and the Incoherence of Political Violence

Erin Picken '27 criticizes the public discourse surrounding Charlie Kirk's assassination, including attempts to rationalize fundamentally incoherent political violence.

September 18, 2025

Highlights·News·Opinion

Inaugural Phoenix Campus Opinions Survey – Spring ’25

On April 21, The Phoenix sent its inaugural campus opinion survey to 593 randomly selected Swarthmore students, representing 34.8% of the student body. The survey asked students to indicate whether they approved, strongly approved, disapproved, strongly disapproved, felt neutral, or didn’t know

May 1, 2025

Highlights·Opinion

“Life with all its Possibilities”: Swarthmore and its Quaker Founders

In his final article as a Swarthmore student, Nathanael Brown '25 takes a look back into the origins of Swarthmore and discusses whether the college is living up to the ideals of its founding.

May 1, 2025

Highlights·Opinion

Arts on Competition, Debate, and Open Discourse

Corinne Lafont '26 argues for increased discourse, collaboration, and accountability among campus publications.

April 24, 2025

Highlights·Opinion

Statement of Tri-Co Solidarity on the National Day of Action for Higher Education

Our campuses in the Tri-Co are unfortunately, under unprecedented attack. In recent weeks, a new direction on immigration policy by the Trump administration has led to detention, detainment, and deportation of college and university students and faculty across the country, as well

April 17, 2025

Highlights·Opinion

Swarthmore College’s Role in Displacing Black Communities

As students at Swarthmore College, we had become accustomed to hearing about the college’s “ongoing responsibility for community care,” “commitment to social responsibility,” and care for “peace and equity” as social values. Likewise, we realized the history of gentrification progressed by many

April 10, 2025

Highlights·Opinion

The Performative Nature of Social Media

“Nothing on social media is real” – this idea has been repeated to us throughout our lives. The reality of this statement became jarringly clear to me recently. During my TikTok doomscroll before bed, I came across a video of a woman

March 27, 2025

Highlights·Opinion

Student Groups Respond to Unprecedented Suspension

On March 6, 2025, Swarthmore College sanctioned fifteen students for participating in pro-Palestinian protest. In one extreme case, the college decided to suspend a second-semester senior two months from graduating, denying them access to college resources with full knowledge that the student

March 20, 2025

Highlights·Opinion

The Rational Ideology of Philadelphia’s Urban Landscape

Dostoevsky would have detested the city of Philadelphia. In many ways, the city exemplifies everything that he hated about the West in general; problems which, in his view, were beginning to infiltrate Russia as well. He was appalled by what he saw

March 6, 2025

Highlights·Opinion

The Romantic Piano: An Evolution of Technologies and Ideas

My favorite practice room on campus is definitely room 420. And it seems that many people would agree, because it’s very rarely available even at 11:30 p.m., which is when I usually decide to begin practicing for the day. The reason I

December 5, 2024

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