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Almost as if posing the question directly to the members of the audience, historian and author Tariq Ali began his lecture on the Iraq War by asking: “So how many more troops to send?” After a moment of silence, his quick answer was a firm and resounding “none.” He remembered how, during the Vietnam War, famed General William Westmoreland once mistakenly stated that “all we need is more troops and we’re going to win the war.” And in many ways, the Vietnam and Iraq Wars have run parallel: because while the United States’ sheer military power certainly cannot be matched, “no one can win.”

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Hamilton's Mock Trial team took first place at the inaugural Colgate Classic tournament, Nov. 7-8. The team, which was undefeated, competed against College of the Holy Cross, Canisius College, Drexel University, and then last year’s regional champion Syracuse University in the fourth, championship round. Twenty-four teams competed from schools that included Princeton, Amherst, and the University of Rochester.

Evan Smith ’87 was featured in David Carr's column "The Media Equation” in The New York Times (11/09/09). The article concerns The Texas Tribune, a new 12-person web-based newsroom co-founded by Smith.

Novelist Kamila Shamsie ’94 will read from her work on Thursday, Nov. 12, at 8 p.m. in Dwight Lounge, Bristol Campus Center. The reading is free and open to the public and will be followed by a book signing. It is sponsored by the Diversity and Social Justice Project and English Department.

Performances of Moliere’s The Learned Ladies, Hamilton’s Fall Student Theatre production, continue Wednesday, Nov. 11, through Saturday, Nov. 14, at 8 p.m., in Minor Theater. Tickets are $5 adults/$3 senior citizens and students. View a slide show of pictures from the production by Matt Poterba 12.

A Hamilton student trudges through the dark recesses of the night, video camera and tripod in hand. He and his friends are in the early stages of the sixth annual 24-Hour Film Festival, hosted by Hamilton’s Film Production Guild. They race across campus, routinely checking the time so as not to fall behind schedule. Each team of actors, producers, and directors has from midnight on Friday until midnight on Saturday to make a quality, entertaining five-minute film – which means they have little time to spare.

Hamilton’s students in the Program in New York City attended a performance of the comedic opera Il Barbiere di Siviglia, or The Barber of Seville, at the Metropolitan Opera on Nov. 4.

Tariq Ali, a Pakistani historian, novelist, filmmaker and commentator, will present a lecture titled “Obama’s War,” on Wednesday, Nov. 11, at 7:30 p.m. in the Chapel at Hamilton College. His talk is part of the Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center 2009-10 series “Crisis: Danger and Opportunity.” All lectures are free and open to the public.

Professor of Religious Studies Heidi Ravven was an invited participant in an online discussion for the National Humanities Center project titled "On The Human." Ravven was a respondent in “After Darwin: On Being Human,” a roundtable at Duke University’s Nov. 9 symposium, Darwin Across the Disciplines. It featured among others Geoff Harpham, president and director of the National Humanities Center, and Alex Rosenberg, the R. Taylor Cole Professor of Philosophy at Duke University.