The Statesman

“The Zone of Interest” is unlike anything you have ever seen

Joshua Lee • February 11, 2024

Name any Holocaust film, whether that’s “Schindler’s List” (1993) or “Life Is Beautiful” (1997); chances are, the most morally repugnant genocide in recent history is told from the victim’s perspective. But what about a Holocaust film from the perpetrator’s point of view?

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It’s past due time to rename Sanger College

Benjamin Joffe • October 10, 2021

#OPINION: Understanding the legacy of Margaret Sanger, whom the building was named after, would demonstrate how having a building named in her honor would undermine the University’s mission of establishing an environment of diversity, equity and inclusion.

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Acts of anti-Semitism today

The Community Garden • October 29, 2018

The Community Garden focuses on the topic of anti-Semitism. Four Stony Brook students share their experiences in receiving anti-Semitic prejudice.

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Port Jefferson resident, who escaped the Nazis, shares her story

Virain Palta • April 15, 2018

In honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day, Stony Brook Hillel invited local Holocaust survivor Beruria Stroke to share her story with students on Thursday, April 12.

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The Onion Bagel: Alternate Social Studies

Joseph Konig • May 7, 2017

From the people who brought you fake news and alternate facts comes Alternate Social Studies 411: Alternate History!

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Let’s unleash Microsoft’s “Tay” on the presidential campaign

Christopher Leelum • March 31, 2016

Can man — the so evidently fallible ape with amazing capacities for violence, racism and terror — actually create intelligence?

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Does foreign policy really play a huge role in politics today?

Emma Hart • October 15, 2012

Seventy years may seem like a long time. It’s about the same time as an average human lifespan and it’s a whole half-century longer than the majority of us undergrads have lived. But when we think...