Opinion

A word on reading

By Richard Taylor · Monday, March 24, 2025

"I do believe that we can learn to love things — that we can train our desires — and that is what I have done with books."

The Video Game Olympics 2025

By Carlos Basurto · Monday, March 24, 2025

"Make a favor to your future self, be part of The Video Game Olympics 2025."

An ode to The Observer office in SDH

By Letter to the Editor · Monday, March 24, 2025

"I knew I could learn more about The Observer because I saw it when I went to the dining hall. After I learned more about The Observer, my life has never been the same since."

The horror of Christopher Grady

By Connor Marrott · Monday, March 24, 2025

"If Notre Dame is to be true to its mission, it must ask itself: are we preparing students to perpetuate the status quo, or to transform it into something closer to Christ’s will — into something that favors more prayers and less war?"

Likes over tikes: family vloggers and the exploitation of their children

By Zora Rodgers · Friday, March 21, 2025

"We must do more to protect these children from being exploited by the one force whose job it is to keep them safe."

Backyard barnstorming brilliance

By Jack Sirianni · Friday, March 21, 2025

“There could not be a more natural moment for a strong Democratic Party to rise up in opposition to President Trump and Elon Musk. They just need to go where Republicans aren’t: their own districts.”

The death effect

By Gracie Eppler · Friday, March 21, 2025

“It is not every day that you get to share a storm cloud with the author of your favorite book. But at my side, there Kaveh Akbar stood, twice my height, limber as a grasshopper’s legs.”

To my many homes and my many moms

By Hannah Alice Simon · Friday, March 21, 2025

“But perhaps gifts of love such as these are not meant to be given back; perhaps they are meant to be passed forward.”

Bring back desperation

By Kate Casper · Wednesday, March 19, 2025

There’s no need to walk away from great people and great opportunities because we know we already have something good going.

Do not read this letter, pt. II

By Jackson Lang · Wednesday, March 19, 2025

I didn’t save her. She saved me.

ND Dining weaponizes Lent with fake meat

By Joe Rudolph · Wednesday, March 19, 2025

“What’s the use in serving fake, malnourished and unhealthy vegan meat to save carbon if South Dining Hall emits more carbon in a week than can be saved with 100 years of composting and cow-free production?”

On going home

By Duncan Stangel · Wednesday, March 19, 2025

"Nostalgia is potent, and it was valuable to unwind. In honor of the DOGE chief, I will describe my week using Elon Musk’s five-point formula."

From Mar-a-Lago with love

By Olemo Gordon Brian · Wednesday, March 5, 2025

"It has always been general policy to shy away from commenting on trending topics which in most cases are empirical manifestations of larger structural phenomena but these are extraordinary times."