Stanford Constitutional Law Fellow, Duncan Hosie, recently published a NYT essay titled “ The Courts Cannot Save Us from Trump .” It deals with the danger of overreliance on the U.S. judiciary to counter a determinedly assertive and  autocratic executive branch of government, particularly when neither the judiciary nor the legislative branches are inclined to assert themselves in opposition. Hosie diagnoses our tendencies to track court rulings as a misplaced need to find structure in this...

Last month, Brown physics professor and President of the American Physical Society, Brad Marston, delivered a public lecture titled “Waves are Everywhere: How Oscillations Shape Technology, Earth, and the Universe.” He was introduced by 2017 Nobel Laureate Barry Barish at the University of California Riverside Center for Experimental Cosmology and Instrumentation. I was curious how such a mathematically sophisticated topic could translate to a general audience — including me. My dual...

We are reposting the details of the memorial service for Ella Cook and MukhammadAziz Umurzokov, which will be livestreamed this Saturday, February 7 from 4 – 5pm EST. Here is the link: https://livestream.brown.edu/ Here’s a link to campus-wide recovery efforts: https://evertrue.brown.edu/ And, finally, Zack Langaway’s, VP Alumni Relations, message is pasted below: Dear Fellow Alumni, The weeks since the terrible tragedy of December 13 have been among the most difficult for the Brown...