Opinion

Why can’t I go to mass in my own dorm?

By Letter to the Editor · Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025

For male students, it’s visible and accessible, even if you don’t want to encounter it. For women, it’s invisible unless you go digging.

RIP: graduate student library lounge

By Oliver Ortega · Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025

Ongoing renovations and The Observer's new office space have moved the graduate student lounge.

Talking is not enough

By Edy McCurrie · Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025

We must serve as examples to love our neighbor at a time of polarization.

Editorial: Political violence is an affront to free speech

By The Observer Editorial Board · Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025

“Although Kirk’s legacy can and will be debated, all should affirm his conviction that college campuses should be places where students should be free to speak their minds and engage in constructive debate.”

A call for more authentic womanhood

By Noirin Dempsey · Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2025

Embracing real beauty in a world of fakes amplifies our authenticity.

Axios CEO: To make an impact, do this

By Letter to the Editor · Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2025

A follow-up to readers' concerns from last week's op-ed on being duped.

What Charlie Kirk got wrong about Black women

By Zora Rodgers · Monday, Sept. 15, 2025

“His racist remarks are inevitably a part of his legacy, and should be consequently painted into the picture of his character.”

Editorial: An A- first year for Dowd

By The Observer Editorial Board · Friday, Sept. 12, 2025

While more could be done on the issues of transparency and free speech, the University appears to be in good hands with Dowd at the helm.

The threat to free speech on college campuses

By Liam Kelly · Friday, Sept. 12, 2025

“To let free speech wither on college campuses is to let the shooter who took Kirk’s life have the final word. It is to lose a virtue essential to the functioning of democracy.”

A protest plague

By Abby Hernan · Friday, Sept. 12, 2025

“Will the British government continue to cower at some people’s requests and just arrest the others who dissent?”

An ode to the Irish and the Aggies

By Letter to the Editor · Friday, Sept. 12, 2025

“Both A&M and ND are institutions that place priority on the mission of forming students in both academics and as better people.”

Why the servant’s heart is dying

By Aynslee Dellacca · Friday, Sept. 12, 2025

“As the needs and injustices in our country continue to grow, they must be met with those who are willing to fulfill those needs and enact justice.”

Humor and Notre Dame: A defense of Shane Gillis

By Jonah Tran · Friday, Sept. 12, 2025

“Your disapproval should not be targeted at Shane Gillis, whose job it is to do exactly what he did on Saturday: entertain.”

I do not belong to that 'happy' past

By Hannah Alice Simon · Thursday, Sept. 11, 2025

"Perhaps today’s children’s literature is not filled with the same effervescent joy of the past. But perhaps that is a good thing."

Off the dome: Martijn Cremers

By Allison Elshoff · Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2025

Dean, visionary and grill master recounts his life and career.

To love your chatbot

By Carlos Basurto · Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2025

“We, as a society, are at our most vulnerable: We seek true connection with desperation.”

Stop pursuing happiness

By Richard Taylor · Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2025

“But, in truth, suffering and joy often go together, and what determines the quality of our inner affections is not so much whether we are in a state of suffering or joy, but whether such suffering or joy is sweet or sour, holy or empty.”