All Quoted

  • February 28, 2018

    “Being able to take some of my woodworking and apply my engineering—it’s a fun marriage of a lot of things. It was really cool to put both of my passions together.”

    —Lorin Paley ’15, Thayer '15 in Park Record.com

  • February 27, 2018

    “He’s certainly not the first politician to attack the media. But in contemporary American politics, we’ve never seen a president go after the media so frequently and with such vitriol. ‘Fake news’ is one version of that that is potentially the most damaging.”

    —Brendan Nyhan, professor of government in Pacific Standard

  • February 26, 2018

    “When you put the work in and see the results, it just makes you more confident.”

    —Kyle Hendricks ’12, starting pitcher for the Chicago Cubs in Chicago Tribune

  • February 23, 2018

    “You don’t raise rates, which causes unemployment to go up, when unemployment is already rising. A week is a long time in economics.”

    —David Blanchflower, the Bruce V. Rauner 1978 Professor of Economics in The Guardian

  • February 22, 2018

    “It’s easy to feel hopeless because the fringe won’t listen. And it’s true—the fringe won’t listen. But there are a lot more people who are vulnerable to conspiracy theories, but don’t necessarily believe them.”

    —Brendan Nyhan, professor of government in CNN

  • February 21, 2018

    “Without him, we’d be living in a different world … Evangelicalism today would have virtually no political or cultural relevance whatsoever.”

    —Randall Balmer, the John Phillips Professor of Religion, talking about the late Billy Graham in TIME

  • February 20, 2018

    “Little by little, people are recognizing the importance of native languages.”

    —Hilaria Cruz, Neukom Postdoctoral Fellow in linguistics and anthropology in New Hampshire Union Leader

  • February 19, 2018

    “When I made my first few (not so great) puzzles, Andrew (Kingsley ’16) was very patient and encouraging—cue clichéd line from a martial arts movie: ‘The student is now the teacher!’—and I learned much from his feedback.”

    —Laura Braunstein, digital arts librarian and crossword-puzzle creator in The New York Times

  • February 16, 2018

    “While senior American officers may pay lip service to the moral behaviors of their soldiers, their actions have long told a different story.”

    —Zach Fredman, U.S. Foreign Policy and International Security Fellow at the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding in The Washington Post

  • February 15, 2018

    “We shouldn't fall for the temptation to see this short-term warming effect as an indication that these sporting events are actually leading to any type of long-term improvements in the behavior of these countries.”

    —Andrew Bertoli, U.S. Foreign Policy and International Security Fellow at the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding in The Atlantic

  • February 14, 2018

    “As we wish Douglass a happy 200th birthday on Feb. 14, let’s do more than reduce him to a feel-good bumper sticker. To do right by Douglass, we owe him the values he held closest to his heart: truth, intellectual curiosity, and the eternal timeliness of reparative justice.”

    —William Cheng, assistant professor of music in Pacific Standard

  • February 13, 2018

    “For now, the United States remains the dominant power in East Asia, but China is quickly closing the gap.”

    —Jennifer Lind, associate professor of government in  Foreign Affairs

  • February 12, 2018

    “Female underrepresentation in children’s books may contribute to a sense of importance and wide-ranging possibilities among boys, and consequently, a sense of unimportance and more limited possibilities among girls.”

    —Janice McCabe, associate professor of sociology in Nation Swell

  • February 9, 2018

    “You might ask the question, ‘How small can you make a satellite and still do science with it?’ This has been a topic over the last decade or so.”

    —Physicist Robyn Millan, the Margaret Anne and Edward Leede '49 Distinguished Professor in The Space Review

  • February 8, 2018

    "Social rejection is really hard because we know we have no script for it. In a lot of social interactions, there's a protocol that we follow. In a social rejection, though, there's nothing good to say that we can think of."

    —Gili Freedman, postdoc researcher in Tiltfactor Lab in The Cut

  • February 7, 2018

    "The religious right is coming back to the founding principles of a movement based in racism."

    —Randall Balmer, the John Phillips Professor in Religion in  The Boston Globe

  • February 6, 2018

    "What is interesting is how we integrate our trans experiences into existing cultural and social practices that weren't created with us in mind."

    —Reese Kelly, director of the Office of Pluralism and Leadership and adjunct assistant professor of women's, gender, and sexuality studies in Vice

  • February 5, 2018

    "Amazon is the one company everyone's scared of, even industrial giants."

    —Vijay Govindarajan, the Coxe Distinguished Professor of Management at the Tuck School of Business in  Harvard Business Review

  • February 2, 2018

    "We would never tolerate this mindless tribalism in middle school student government. Why do we accept it in the U.S. Congress?"

    —Charles Wheelan '88, senior lecturer and policy fellow at the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy in  U.S. News & World Report

  • February 1, 2018

    “Ordinary thrift and self-forgiveness were the payday only I could provide, no matter my professional or financial circumstances, and this realization was the gift of that time, as close to a Unitarian grace as I think I’ll ever get.”

    —Alexander Chee, associate professor of English in BuzzFeed News

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