Satire: Tufts Adopts Position of Institutional Lethality
Earlier this year, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced that the Department of War would restrict academic ties with Tufts University, along with nearly two dozen other top universities. Military fellowships at Tufts have been cancelled for the next academic year amid the department’s campaign against anti-American values. Mr. Hegseth said that the universities have […]
Warriors, Not Wokesters: The Defense Department’s Censure of Military Fellows at Fletcher
On February 27, 2026, the United States Department of Defense issued a memorandum, entitled “Aligning Senior Service College Opportunities With American Values,” that eliminated Senior Service College (SSC) Fellowships at Tufts University and 13 colleges and universities. The list includes Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Columbia, and Yale, as well as non-profit […]
Theory and Practice: Decolonization at Tufts and Beyond
The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy hosted its annual Decolonizing International Relations conference this year, on October 16th and 17th. The conference, founded in 2017, is completely student-run, and it is advertised as “the first conference of its kind within International Relations Graduate Schools.” This year’s iteration of the conference is titled “Reorienting Theoretical […]