Last Wednesday, former gubernatorial candidate and Wisconsin State Rep. Francesca Hong (D-Madison) joined the Brown Political Union for a moderated discussion and Q&A session titled “Democratic Socialism and the Future of the Democratic Party.” Hong presented herself as a politician who is deeply ...
A few weeks ago, Isabella Gardiner ’28 wrote a column arguing that Brown should ditch the two-and-a-half-hour seminar. Her complaints will sound familiar to anyone who’s sat through one: the classes run too long, meet too infrequently and don’t foster lively debate. While I sympathize with the ...
It’s 8 a.m. and, armed with coffee and an Aramaic-English dictionary, my friend and I enter the Beit Midrash, the Jewish house of study. We open a page of Talmud — the central text of Rabbinic Judaism — and begin decoding its dense, punctuationless arguments: One rabbi makes a claim, another challenges ...
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