FALL 2025

9/7/2025, Identities, perspectives, and politics– jack delaney ’26 and Ben Risley ’26

This discussion explored how our identities shape our perspectives, and how we engage in political discourse when those perspectives do not align.

9/14/2025, TLDR: Literacy & Fascism – Edna Sam ’26 and Alex Rodriguez ’28

This discussion was about media literacy & its political implications.

9/21/2025, The Tortured Artist – Tessa Giardi ’25, Camsey/Eli noonan ’26,  and Sam Jackson ’28

There is a perceived correlation between ‘madness’ and creativity, perpetuated by the tortured artist trope. This week’s discussion asked if “the lunatic, the lover, and the poet are of imagination all compact” (William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream) by analyzing the legitimacy of the correlation, the persistence of the trope, and its societal implications.