“Young people feel a tremendous amount of affirmation when they see folks similar to them starring as central characters.”
—Kabir Sehgal ’05, author of ‘Walk in My Shoes: Conversations Between a Civil Rights Legend and His Godson on the Journey Ahead’ and other booksin The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
June 22, 2018
“The United States seems to be giving up on the WTO rules—which we helped create. Other countries may do the same.”
—Douglas Irwin, the John French Professor in Economicsin The Washington Post
June 21, 2018
“The persistence of evangelical support for Trump, both his personal behavior and now his immigration policies, finally lays to rest the illusion that the religious right was ever concerned about ‘family values.’”
—Randall Balmer, the John Phillips Professor in Religionin The New York Times
June 20, 2018
“After the revelations of data leakage to Cambridge Analytica and the subsequent outcry over the loss of privacy and possible election meddling, it’s easy to lose sight of the broader issue of data ownership.”
—Geoffrey Parker, professor of engineering at Thayer School of Engineeringin The Hill
June 19, 2018
“When I started to write I didn’t see the world of my childhood depicted anywhere.”
—Édouard Louis, author and recent Montgomery fellow at Dartmouthin The New York Times
June 18, 2018
“This isn’t the first time backward looking firms in the (securities) biotech industry have put women on show for the titillation of their predominantly male clientele.”
“Usually we see secession movements when the people of a region feel like an alienated minority. They feel outvoted or discriminated against or even oppressed.”
—Jason Sorens, lecturer in the Department of Governmentin USA Today
June 13, 2018
“When it comes to the right to vote, it’s now use it or lose it.”
—Michael Herron, the Remsen 1943 Professor of Government, and a co-authorin New York Daily News
June 12, 2018
“It’s clear to us from our research and from these interviews that the time has come for investor bodies and companies to rethink the financial reporting model from scratch.”
—Vijay Govindarajan, the Coxe Distinguished Professor of Management at the Tuck School of Business, and co-authorsin Harvard Business Review
June 11, 2018
“Remember that better solutions arise when diverse perspectives are applied to the complex challenges you’ll face. In short, be citizens of the world.”
—President Phil Hanlon ’77 tells Dartmouth graduatesin Dartmouth News
June 8, 2018
“When I say it’s you I like, I’m talking about that part of you that knows that life is far more than anything you can ever see or hear or touch. That deep part of you that allows you to stand for those things without which humankind cannot survive. Love that conquers hate, peace that rises triumphant over war, and justice that proves more powerful than greed.”
—Fred Rogers ’50, star of “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood”in The Conversation
June 7, 2018
“I do believe that the public has a greater awareness of the dangers of tick bites.”
—Elizabeth Talbot, associate professor of medicine at the Geisel School of Medicinein NHPR
June 6, 2018
“Businesses need to get smarter about avoiding crises.”
—Paul Argenti, professor of corporate communication at the Tuck School of Businessin CNN Money
June 5, 2018
“Well, what’s really wonderful right now is that being a traditional creator—looking like the traditional TV and movie creator—is not what people actually want.”
—Mindy Kaling ’01, actor, writer, and producer, and this year’s commencement speakerin Boston.com
June 4, 2018
“This is a huge and unwarranted slap, sure to bring retaliatory blowback against American exporters. And thus a triple-harm: It hits U.S. steel-consuming industries and U.S. exporters, and hurts national security by alienating friends.”
“I can understand, in some sense, the administration starting a trade war with China, but it is enormously damaging and counterproductive to start a trade war with Canada, the EU, and Mexico.”
—Douglas Irwin, the John French Professor of Economicsin Los Angeles Times
May 31, 2018
“Affirmations are used to reprogram the subconscious mind, to encourage us to believe certain things about ourselves. They are also used to help us create the reality we want.”