Previous Commentary 2003 and Earlier

Opinion articles and speeches by MHC faculty, staff, and students, published in the media are available here. Should you wish to respond to the ideas contained within any of these articles, email the MHC News Office. Your comments will be shared with the author of the article to which you are responding.

Benfey in The New York Times on Cruise, Dylan, and Perry
By Christopher Benfey - December 8, 2003

Jones in The Globe and Mail on the Republic of Georgia Crisis
By Stephen Jones - November 27, 2003

Harold in the Hartford Courant: "Ruling Raises Questions About States' Role in Marriage"
By James Harold - November 19, 2003

Fox in the Washington Post: "The Wrong Prescription: We Should Help Needy Seniors First -- But We Can't Even Afford That"
By John O. Fox - October 12, 2003

Joanne V. Creighton in the Hartford Courant: "The Trouble With Escalating Athletics Programs"
By Joanne V. Creighton - September 23, 2003

Lasensky in the San Diego Union-Tribune: "As Violence Escalates, Middle East Sinks Further Into Despair"
By Scott B. Lasensky - September 15, 2003

Harold in the San Francisco Chronicle: "Separation of Church And State: Let Religion Define Matrimony"
By James Harold - August 6, 2003

Ferraro in the Hartford Courant: "Another Motive For Iraq War: Stabilizing Oil Market"
By Vincent Ferraro - August 13, 2003

Student Commencement Speech
By Chiara Davis Fuller - May 25, 2003

Commencement Address May 2002
By Her Majesty Queen Noor - May 26, 2002

Fox in the Washington Post: "You Call This Relief? I Don't"
By John O. Fox - May 19, 2003

Ackmann in Newsday.com: "Restricting Women's Military Role Hurts All"
By Martha Ackmann - April 8, 2003

Harold in the Chicago Tribune: "Here's Why the War Against Iraq Is Fundamentally Flawed"
By James Harold - March 25, 2003

Cutler in the Scranton Tribune: "Road to Peace Amid March to War"
By Sarah Michelle Cutler '03 - March 18, 2003

Western in the Springfield Republican: "Bush Shouldn't Make Attack on Iraq Sound Easy"
By Jon Western - March 10, 2003

Fox in the Boston Sunday Globe: "Workers Who Spend Are More Deserving of Relief"
By John O. Fox - Febraury 24, 2003

Morgan in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer: "Research Is a Good Life for Dead Embryo"
By Lynn Morgan - December 3, 2002

Pyle in the Hartford Courant: "Domestic Spying - Again?"
By Christopher Plye - November 21, 2002

Creighton in the Chicago Tribune, reviewing books by Joyce Carol Oates and Margaret Drabble
By Joanne V. Creighton - November 18, 2002

Fox in the Boston Herald on taxes: "Reality Check Must Conclude in a Demand For Higher Taxes"
By John O. Fox - October 21, 2002

Western in the Hartford Courant on Iraq, "Baghdad or Bust"
By Jon Western - September 11, 2002

Young in the Chicago Tribune on Two Books Recounting Stories of Slavery
By Elizabeth Young - August 12, 2002

Pyle in the Providence Journal: "Please, No More Domestic Spies!"
By Christopher Pyle - August 2, 2002

Pyle in the Hartford Courant: "An Army Of Police At Bush's Disposal"
By Christopher Pyle - July 29, 2002

Pyle in the Los Angeles Times: "Terrorism, Domestic Spying Catches No One"
By Christopher Pyle - June 10, 2002

Hashmi in the Washington Post: "Not What The Prophet Would Want, How Can Islamic Scholars Sanction Suicidal Tactics?"
By Sohail Hashmi - June 10, 2002

Pyle in the Daily Hampshire Gazette: "The Trouble With Tribunals"
By Christopher Pyle - May 10, 2002

Paus in the Sunday Republican about becoming an American Citizen
By Eva Paus - May 7, 2002

Tatum in the Daily Hampshire Gazette about Fostering A Discussion Of Issues
By Beverly Daniel Tatum - April 8, 2002

Pyle's speech to the Pilgrim Society of Plymouth, Massachusetts
By Christopher Pyle - December 21, 2001

Pyle in the Baltimore Sun Debunking Tribunal Myths
By Christopher Pyle - December 17, 2001

Benfey in the New York Times on the Year's Best Art Books
By Christopher Benfey - December 3, 2001

Pyle in the Daily Hampshire Gazette on President Bush's New Executive Order
By Christopher Pyle - November 22, 2001

Birkerts in the New York Observer on the Role of Poetry after the World Trade Center Disaster
By Sven Birkerts - October 1, 2001

The Terrorists' Zealotry  is Political Not Religious
By Sohail Hashmi - September 30, 2001

Ranking Lacks Credibility
By President Joanne V. Creighton - September 10, 2001

Backtalk; Girls' Group Gives Running Equal Time
By Martha Ackman - July 1, 2001

Commencement Speech
By Suzan-Lori Parks May 27, 2001

A Typical Muderer
By Richard Moran - May 5, 2001

Sidetracked by SATS
By Joanne V. Creighton - January 3, 2001

The Real Missing Votes
By Douglas Amy - December 15, 2000

An Accidental Utopia in Stuyvesant Town
By Corrine Demasi - November 20, 2000

The Electoral College Beats the Alternatives
By Joseph Ellis -  November 15, 2000

America Must Seek Better Voting System
By Douglas Amy - November 15, 2000

Using the Internet to Strengthen the College Experience
By Joanne V. Creighton - November 12, 2000

Widow's Mandate Demeans Women
By Martha Ackmann - November 10, 2000

A Review by Christopher Benfey of "Across an Untried Sea" Written by Julia Markus
November 5, 2000

The Pied Piper of Violent Media has a Hold on Our Children
By Patricia Ramsey - September 15, 2000

 A Review by Joanee V. Creighton of Blonde Written by Joyce Carol Oates
July 16, 2000

An Op-ed on Racism
By Beverly Daniel Tatum - July 2, 2000

Commencement Address
By Mary Patterson McPherson - May 21, 2000

Baccalaureate Address
By Dilrukshi Fonseka - May 21, 2000

Baccalaureate Address
By Mary Jo Salter - May 20, 2000

A College isn't Just Another Commodity
By Joanne V. Creighton - April 30, 2000

A Review by Joanne V. Creighton of "The Big Test: The Secret History of The American Meritocracy" Written by Nicholas Lemann
Spring, 2000

A Review by Tara Fitzpatrick of "The Other American" The Life of Michael Harrington" Written by Maurice Isserman
April 30, 2000

Issue of Fetal Remains Shouldn't be Demagogued
By Lynn Morgan - March 13, 2000

Years Later, Maker of a Landmark Film Still Stands Up for Title IX
By Martha Ackmann - March 12, 2000

Mothers Who Think
By Martha Ackmann - January 10, 2000

Irresponsible Journalists are Jeopardizing Serious Investigations by the Press
By Christopher Pyle - January 7, 2000

For Democracy - With Benefits
By Jeffrey Rubin - December 3, 1999

Liberal Arts Education More Important Than Ever
By Joanne V. Creighton - November 28, 1999

Fall 1999 Convocation
By Joanne V. Creighton - September 1999

It's Time to Take One Giant Step for Womankind
By Martha Ackmann - August 1999

Juvenile System - Like its Clients - Get Bad Rap
By Richard Moran - July 18, 1999

A Review by Tara Fitzpatrick--A Useful Woman: The Early Life of Jane Addams
July 18, 1999

True Desecration of the Flage is Censorship, Not Burning
By Christopher Pyle - July 11, 1999

How Wimbledon Can Save Face and Save Money to Afford Equal Pay
By Martha Ackmann - June 27, 1999

Commencement Speech
By Anna Quindlen - May 23, 1999

Disturbing Images
By Christopher Pyle - April 22, 1999

It's High Time For a Fair Shot
By Martha Ackmann - March 7, 1999

Affirming Affirmative Action
By Joanne Creighton - March 4, 1999

Emerging Markets and Submerged Histories
By Lowell Gudmundson - February 10, 1999

Remarks by President Creighton to Virginia Hamilton Adair on the Occasion of her Honorary Degree
Januuary 11, 1999

Review: Jill Lepore, The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity
By Tara Fitzpatrick - December 20, 1998

College Degrees Bear Bitter Fruit in Sri Lanka
By Asoka Bandarage - December 18, 1998

Jefferson, Patriarchy, Paternity, and the Self-Evident Truth
By Jane Crosthwaite - November 29, 1998

Judging Public Reaction to Abandoned Baby Cases
By Martha Ackmann - November 8, 1998

NASA'S Sexism Lost in Nostalgia Over Glenn Flight
By Martha Ackmann - October 29, 1998

Campaign Kick-Off Remarks
By President Joanne V. Creighton - October 1998