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Saturday, Dec. 6, 2025
The Observer

Opinion




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Off the Dome: David Campbell

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Political science professor David Campbell provides insight on the state of American democracy, social capital, and the value of having a dog.


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We cannot sit back to AI

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“This debate is moving lightning fast, and one of the ways that you lose your seat at the table is by holding back, by being too tentative, by watching and waiting. Your generation cannot afford to do that. None of us can.”








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Graduate students at ND deserve better

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“In the spirit of graduate student appreciation week, all of us — admins, students, staff — should work to make our international brethren feel welcome at Our Lady’s University.”







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Whether AI can be ensouled

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If we smugly say, whether because we’re Catholic or because we’re Mennonite, that we needn’t worry about an ensouled AI because it simply couldn’t happen, we increase the chance that it will.


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What a day in a leper colony showed me

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“In the wake of abandonment due to the intense stigmatization of what society generally understands as leprosy, the Titagarh colony offers a beacon of hope.”