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The Dining Hall Shows Regime Change Can Be Good

Arman Hanifpour '27 argues that we should be more less quick to reflexively condemn the idea of regime change, whether it comes to something as mundane as the Swarthmore Dining Hall or as consequential as war in the Middle East.
September 24, 2026

Baseball and the Idea of America

As the summer approaches, during which the United States will celebrate the 250th anniversary of its founding, it has only become clearer that America has a very bizarre relationship with its past. Among many, there is an obsession with, even worship of
April 23, 2026

Free will does not matter

Freedom is a big word in our country and all too often the notion is taken for granted. Elsewhere I have written on the need to weigh the implicit negative rights of the historically marginalized against the positive rights of those who
February 23, 2017

Freedom from freedom

Freedom is an often used word in our country, and yet it remains difficult to get a full sense of what it means. Often it is described as a freedom to do something: the right to free speech, the right to bear
September 22, 2016

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