“The place of athletics at Amherst is fucking ridiculous.” I was halfway through my interview with a professor about faculty concerns with the recent report on the place of athletics at Amherst when she blew my hair back with this line. I looked up from my notebook. I expected professors to be frustrated with the…Continue Reading Report on Athletics Raises More Questions Than It Answers
Tag: Sam Wohlforth
The Long Life of Names
In protesting the racist Lord Jeff mascot, student activists often cite his record of approving of genocidal tactics against the Native tribes his British army was trying to suppress. They rightly quote his letter to a subordinate in which he wonders “Could it not be contrived to send the Small Pox among those disaffected tribes…Continue Reading The Long Life of Names
The Sickening
“Feminism is cancer. Thank you very much.” With those words, Milo Yiannopoulos sat back down in his chair, not thirty seconds after walking to the podium and beginning the talk….Continue Reading The Sickening