Local Impact, Alumni News

Walls, Barriers, and Understanding

The Bennington Banner published an op-ed by Michael Thomson '15 about the impact of walls on national identity and the relationships between nations. 

Thomson writes: 

What happens when one group decides to construct walls — legal, physical, or ideological — out of fear and loathing felt towards an "other?" How does the relationship between Americans and peoples around the world change when rampant xenophobia, nativism, and scurrilous rhetoric dictate U.S. policy?