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By Josh Lancman ‘24
“I’m your movie buddy.” The man sitting next to me when I saw “The French Dispatch” introduced himself with that somewhat unusual remark, one that maybe wouldn’t be so out of place in the film we were both here to see. I felt like chuckling at his fake sarcasm, but I sat there silently, and I listened to him talk with his identical looking counterpart about how, even though it was a cliche, the retail job he worked 25 hours a day, 8 days a week was slowly killing him, and I started to feel sorry for this man. Perhaps he didn’t realize the cliche of the dreams he hinted at desperately wanting to pursue; of being an actor, a writer, a director, anything, any creative enterprise that would take him away from the world of cold, unengaging and monotonous labor. Even if he had to work sixty hours on a project that would only see the light of day from a small family window where it’s sole showing would be (in his own inventive words), he would do it. This was a man who wanted to escape. No wonder he came to a Wes Anderson film.
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By Boaz Fox ‘23
Late at night on August 30, Army Maj. Gen. Chris Donahue stepped aboard a C-17 transport aircraft, becoming the last American serviceman to leave Afghanistan, marking the end of America’s longest and most expensive war. Maj. Gen. Donahue was just one of over eight hundred thousand American soldiers to serve in the Afghan War, and more than two thousand of those soldiers, in addition to nearly fifty thousand Afghani civilians, had died during this period. This unwinnable war had gone on far too long, and ending it was America’s only option. By Austin Colm ‘25
Mark Twain once said, “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.” People across the nation have been comparing the US withdrawal from Afghanistan to the botched exit from Vietnam nearly fifty years ago. Current President Joe Biden was only a first-term Senator in 1975 when the U.S. pulled out from the Southeast Asian nation, after a long and unpopular war. His opinions however, were strong. By Hannah Lancman ‘22
Standardized testing has been plaguing high school students for decades. The tedious process is treated as one that everyone must experience, which somehow defines the American high school and college experience: a basic test of knowledge designed to bring the millions of students in the country to the same scale. How these tests have become the standard procedure for a country that preaches independence and uniqueness over all is unfathomable. |
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