All Quoted

  • July 13, 2018

    “We should all be concerned about heart disease. We should all exercise; we should eat real food.”

    —H. Gilbert Welch, professor of medicine at the Geisel School of Medicine in The Daily Item

  • July 12, 2018

    “I think the consensus is widely shared that we are now engaged in a battle with China on tariffs the likes of which we haven’t seen since the Great Depression.”

    —Matthew Slaughter, dean of the Tuck School of Business in NHPR

  • July 11, 2018

    “With the current trend of medical students choosing not to go into primary care, this shortage is a very real issue.”

    —Roshini Pinto-Powell, associate professor of medicine and medical education at the Geisel School of Medicine in The Hill

  • July 10, 2018

    “How we view drinking as a culture is not accidental. It’s been carefully scripted for us by the alcohol industry, in ads we’ve seen since we were little kids.”

    —James Sargent, the Scott M. and Lisa G. Stuart Professor of Pediatric Oncology at the Geisel School of Medicine in The Outline

  • July 9, 2018

    “Great universities seek to erase the borders that confine intellectual exchange.”

    —Carolyn Dever, professor of English in Public Books

  • July 6, 2018

    “Every so often, we find a fragmentary piece of a kid’s mandible, or some teeth. But this discovery is just extraordinary.”

    —Jeremy DeSilva, associate professor of anthropology in The Atlantic

  • July 5, 2018

    “What bothers me is when these things are being sold as woman-friendly or ways to eliminate one’s risk of getting raped. I’m not buying that.”

    —Susan Brison, the Eunice and Julian Cohen Professor for the Study of Ethics and Human Values in Refinery29

  • July 3, 2018

    “Consider the implications: By not including women scholars, you are deliberately distorting the state of the field, narrowing the range of knowledge and interpretation, and excluding important areas of research and insight.”

    —Susannah Heschel, the Eli Black Professor of Jewish Studies, and a co-author in Forward

  • July 2, 2018

    “I expect that here in the United States we will start to see this content in the upcoming midterms and national election two years from now. The technology, of course, knows no borders, so I expect the impact to ripple around the globe.”

    —Hany Farid, the Albert Bradley 1915 Third Century Professor of Computer Science in The New York Times

  • June 29, 2018

    “It’s really a milestone in black films. You get this narrative of black people always being embattled and oppressed. Films like ‘Black Panther’ and ‘Coming to America’ change this.”

    —Monica White Ndounou, associate professor of theater in The Washington Post

  • June 28, 2018

    “I think that it will join the ranks of the worst decisions ever rendered by the court over 240 years. I think it is an abomination. And unfortunately, it will set back our national security, not improve it.”

    —Daniel Benjamin, the Norman E. McCulloch Jr. Director of the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding in Al Jazeera

  • June 28, 2018

    “The fallout from the disastrous Brexit vote and the even more calamitous negotiations are scaring businesses to death, and continuing apace.”

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

  • June 27, 2018

    “Economists generally believe that trade is mutually beneficial and that if you stop trade, you hurt your trade partner, but you also hurt yourself because the price of your imports will go up for consumers.”

    —Douglas Irwin, the John French Professor in Economics in World Finance

  • June 26, 2018

    “U.S. health care obviously needs a heart transplant. Who better than a surgeon, with deeper knowledge of U.S. health care than anyone I know, to guide this effort?”

    —Elliott Fisher, director of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice, talking about Atul Gawande, CEO of the new Bezos/Buffet/Dimon health care venture in The Boston Globe

  • June 25, 2018

    “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 books in 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 Economics in 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 Religion in 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 Engineering in 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 Dartmouth in 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.”

    —Kate Strayer-Benton ’05, Tuck ’11 in The Boston Globe

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