Sentimental Value is a 2025 Norwegian film directed by Joachim Trier, starring Stellan Skarsgård, Renate Reinsve, and Elle Fanning. The basic premise of the film is that a washed up film director, played by Stellan Skarsgård, reunites with his estranged daughters Nora and Agnes to make a comeback film.

If Prince Andrew’s arrest was meant to signal the law’s neutrality despite the status that public figures may hold, the underwhelming resolution to this drama has instead reinforced the opposite perception. Across the Atlantic, the spectacle surrounding our era’s greatest scandal has done little to restore public confidence in the impartiality of justice or the strength of our institutions.

The Holdovers is a film made by Alexander Payne in 2023, already having been hailed as a standard of the prep school story genre over the past few years. The movie follows the relationship between Paul Hunham, a classics teacher at Barton Academy, and Angus Tully, who has been left behind over Christmas break while his mother goes on vacation with her new husband.

For a long time, many have wondered whether rock as a genre itself is “dead”. Since the 90s, it’s seemed like the genre has seeped back into the cultural underground, lost in the cultural periphery. But Brooklyn’s Fort Greene has produced a new phenomenon that has turned the tides of popular culture.

 This State of the Union has gained attention not for just what was said within the speech itself—it contained the typical rhetoric that the President has employed when discussing the country’s progress and problems, as well as historical statistics that back national growth since he took office—but for its reception. 

It’s not every day you’re invited into the home of a former Fortune 500 CEO, especially to interview the founder of Peloton. But somehow, I managed to find myself sitting in John Foley's living room, drinking Spindrift seltzer and talking about entrepreneurship and different kinds of businesses with him.

Over 365 days after 10/7/23, a lot has changed. Constant discourse and protest have followed the deadliest event in modern Jewish history, its survivors sharing their stories to the world. Various exhibits centered on capturing the harrowing moments of that fated day have swept the world, forcing all to bear eye and ear to the tragic events that occurred on that fated dawn following Sukkot. We can only heal after we’ve understood, no matter how brutal the subject matter is.

In the wake of increasing socio-political tensions regarding the institution of slavery, then-candidate Abraham Lincoln remarked that “a house divided against itself cannot stand.” 166 years later, that historic statement could not be more relevant. 

With Election Day a mere two days away, the need for respectful and layered dialogue in a country seemingly devoid of nuance remains at an all-time high. 

Grade inflation is ubiquitous in our nation today, highlighting whether high schools in the United States give out too many A’s. Simply put, letter grades do not hold the same weight that they did a few decades ago.

The answer to improving the confidence of student public speakers and strengthening school spirit? Student-led assemblies have the potential to create a space for students in upper divisions to voice their opinions and further empower them to take control over their own education.

It's time for the Scholastic Assessment Test, also known as the SAT, to be abolished. For many years, students have been required to take SATs to get into college. However, amid recent criticism that the tests cater to higher-income families and are an ineffective measure of a student's intelligence, they are slowly being eradicated as a mandate in students' applications. 

It’s time for financial literacy to be taught in schools. Four in seven Americans are financially illiterate. Only 24% of Millennials understand basic financial concepts. 64% of adults identify money as a significant stressor. 

During the second semester of my junior year, I was fortunate to spend my spring semester abroad at The Island School in Eleuthera, Bahamas, expanding on my studies in marine ecology and sustainability.⁠

The fate of globalization is as uncertain as ever, and the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed its limitations. The pandemic has revealed the dangers of globalization, as arguably lethal dependencies on foreign industry (especially in Asia) led to fragile supply chains and colossal shortages in personal protective equipment (PPE) as well as other goods such as cars and electronics.

Conversations are not as healthy as they used to be. They’re not thought-provoking, nor can you gain a better understanding about the given topic. The only thing you can gain from unhealthy discussions is a yelling match.

On January 6, a group of rioters who supported former President Donald Trump stormed Capitol Hill because they believed the election was stolen from him. Congress was in the process of certifying the electoral votes when the mob started to charge into the building.

As I approach graduation and my final days as a student at Browning, I have been nostalgic and have been tracing out all of the important things, groups, and people that have shaped my experience for the last decade.

Miss walking with dinosaurs at the American Museum of Natural History? Here’s how to virtually visit all of your favorite dinosaurs, art, and sculpture in New York City.

People are more united than at any other time in modern history. Maybe now is the time to find the light in the darkness—for ourselves, our school, our city, and our country.