Opinion

Biased journalism in The Irish Rover

By Sophia Lekeufack · Monday, Nov. 24, 2025

“Notre Dame deserves a student newspaper that challenges ideas, not people. The Irish Rover can choose to be that paper. But right now, it is choosing something else.”

Kash Patel’s excessive jet use is hypocritical

By Noirin Dempsey · Friday, Nov. 21, 2025

“Like many taxpayers, I find it a bit hard to swallow that for each of Patel’s flights, we bear the brunt of the bill.”

TPUSA is incompatible with SMC values

By Letter to the Editor · Friday, Nov. 21, 2025

“Welcoming TPUSA as an official presence on campus is no less than a slap in the face to the Sisters who founded us, the women who this institution continues to educate and empower, and our Catholic call to justice and unconditional love for all.”

The uneasiness of feeling at home in the kitchen

By Hannah Alice Simon · Thursday, Nov. 20, 2025

The intersection between disability and gender in the kitchen.

We fear getting caught more than we fear not learning

By Ana Prestamo · Thursday, Nov. 20, 2025

“If Notre Dame’s mission is truly to form minds and hearts, then the greater threat is not AI.”

An era of consensus

By Sam Marchand · Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2025

“Trump has delivered on years of campaign promises with de facto cooperation from nominal opponents, the very meaning of consensus.”

A flaneur in South Bend: Counterspell Café

By Oliver Ortega · Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2025

A spin-off of the widely popular Cloud Walking café.

Identity is also at the Thanksgiving table

By Molly Wu · Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2025

A reflection on the universal values of the national holiday Thanksgiving.

Why I stopped ‘romanticizing boredom’ — and you should too

By Sophia Anderson · Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2025

“The truth is that there’s nothing wrong with choosing not to be bored.”

The dangers of dehumanization

By Amaris O’Connor · Monday, Nov. 17, 2025

We have entered into a period where lines are becoming blurred and important distinctions are becoming lost in favor of generalizations.

Why I’m grateful for the first snow

By Noirin Dempsey · Monday, Nov. 17, 2025

Joy is contagious, and if just one person can find it, any experience can be transformed into something beautiful.

Think of the hard of hearing this Thanksgiving

By Letter to the Editor · Monday, Nov. 17, 2025

“We can make the holidays, and public areas as a whole, a more accessible space for everyone if we make some small changes to how we have conversations with each other.”

Donald the duck? President Trump has lost his power.

By Grayson Beckham · Monday, Nov. 17, 2025

“If Trump, as an incumbent president, lacks the whipping authority he had as a candidate, what message is sent regarding his next three years in office?”

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Being chronically online is out, the age of intellectualism is in

By Sienna Stephens · Monday, Nov. 17, 2025

“If the internet once promised the freedom to create, pursue and find ourselves, then why is it that humans are fundamentally more unfulfilled with their lives than before?”