On Joseph Smith, the Upper Valley, and Why I Came to Dartmouth
It is often too easy to forget why one came to this campus, annually transformed by the inexorable march of winter into a den of…
Arts & Culture
Review Reviews: VINS Nature Center
The Canopy Walk. Dartmouth students forwent so much in the last year and a half of remote learning—not least their proximity to the natural abundance…
Review Reviews: Dorrance Dance
With the Hopkins Center for the Arts still cautiously under-booking performances, the College has forced Dartmouth students to broaden their search for cultural enrichment. Fortunately,…
Embattled: A Review
The Review reviews Emily Katz Anhalt ’80’s newest book.
The Devil May Dance: A Review
Dartmouth alumnus Jake Tapper ‘91 is known mainly for his work as an anchor on CNN. His earlier career as an author tended to focus…
Three Days at Camp David: A Review
`The global monetary system often goes unnoticed by an American public whose concern over the economy usually only extends to gas prices, unemployment numbers, and…
A New Idea of India: A Review
A New Idea of India, written by Harsh Madhusudan (’09) and Rajeev Mantri provides a fascinating vision of an India informed by a free-market, secularist…
Race Against Time: A Review
In less than 25 years from now, white people will become a minority in America. Keith Boykin ’87 connects this fact to what he argues is a latent racism in white Americans that will ignite a racial civil war in Race Against Time: The Politics of a Darkening America, a digestible and at times revelatory but ultimately unconvincing synopsis of the trajectory of race in America.
Lift Every Voice and Swing: A Review
Matthew O. Skrod reviews Professor Vaughn Booker’s recent, innovative study of jazz and African American religious authority.
The Right to Bear Arms: A Review
This divergence between the right to possess and carry around a weapon as expressed in the Constitution and its recognition (or lack thereof) by individual states serves as the topic of The Right to Bear Arms: A Constitutional Right of People or a Privilege of the Working Class?, the newest analysis of Second Amendment history by noted appellate lawyer and scholar Stephen Halbrook.