“The FDA learned the hard way with hydroxychloroquine because the last thing you want to do is put a product out there for consumers to use and then say, 'We're wrong. We shouldn't have let that product out there.'”
Herschel Nachlis, research assistant professor of government| Relias Media
October 2, 2020
“With the 1980 election, we began to see a coalition between the religious right and the far-right precincts of the Republican Party and that coalition has become a fusion.”
Randall Balmer, the John Phillips Professor in Religion | Financial Times
October 1, 2020
“This country lionizes those who rebelled against taxation without representation centuries ago, but we have ended up with a system providing ample representation without taxation for our elites, at the expense of the rest of us.”
“A poorly ventilated indoor space with people talking is the virus's dream.”
Lindsey Leininger, clinical professor of business administration| The New York Times
September 29, 2020
“In being vague and non-transparent, it's (the FDA's Emergency Use Authorization) potentially susceptible to the appearance of political influence.”
Herschel Nachlis, research assistant professor of government| Nature
September 28, 2020
“If data science were a part of a high school curriculum it could provide a mechanism for girls to show their quantitative skills and it also could be a boost to humanities programs as well.”
Dan Rockmore, William H. Neukom 1964 Distinguished Professor of Computational Science| Salon
September 25, 2020
“There are lots of ways our friendships can be important, even if they don't last for decades.”
Janice McCabe, associate professor of sociology| DigBoston
September 24, 2020
“I want to be clear: This is a democratic emergency. … This is a time for choosing—for every person of good faith in either party to decide whether they are for democracy or not.”
“Beneath the veneer of 'peace,' these agreements strengthen four nefarious dynamics that far outweigh the current niceties between Arab governments and Israel. ”
Ezzedine Fishere, senior lecturer in Middle Eastern Studies | The Washington Post
September 22, 2020
“These cyber-relationships are another type of new normal, so we are interested in the teacher's view on how this works for a student.”
Lee Coffin, vice provost for enrollment and dean of admissions and financial aid| The Conversation
September 21, 2020
“Repetition is what breathes air into conspiracy theories, and social media is all about repetition. But repeating something that's false does not make it more true!”
Russell Muirhead, the Robert Clements Professor of Democracy and Politics| Wired
September 18, 2020
“We've never had a president attack our electoral system in this way.”
“Professional forecasters think we're going to be short of the target for the next few years, which really raises the question, what's the Fed's longer-run plan?”
“With all the craziness, the only thing I can focus on is doing my best at whatever job I'm doing right now, whether it's working out, school, training, or racing.”
“We've seen great grassroots movements; we now need to transform the board rooms of corporate America to create a new structural model where equity and justice prevail.”
John Replogle '88, former member of the Dartmouth Board of Trustees| Thrive Global
September 9, 2020
“The average person who is 64.9 years old has the exact same health risks as somebody who is 65. So it's very difficult to divide populations into safe and not-safe categories.”
Andrew Levin, professor of economics| The Atlantic
September 8, 2020
“Our results are promising in suggesting that there may be many other impressive archaeological features that have not yet been documented, if we look hard enough.”
Jesse Casana, professor of anthropology| Science Alert