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PUBLISHED ON Wednesday, July 01, 2009 By AHMED N. MABRUK In Holland, as I soon found out, Moroccans possess a universally-accepted, second-class social status—as do most other “allochtoon,” a now-derogatory word for “immigrant.” Ask any Dutch person, and he or she will (bluntly) tell you the same.
PUBLISHED ON Wednesday, July 01, 2009 Connecticut’s lawmakers fudge the state budget By BRIAN J. BOLDUC On prudence, Rell scores high: Raising taxes will slow the recovery, so the state should cut spending instead.
PUBLISHED ON Wednesday, July 01, 2009 By SOFIA E. GROOPMAN How could it be that this clearly xenophobic party had won 10 percent of the vote?
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FULLY CHARGED
Don’t Go Hog Wild
By ADAM R. GOLD
For swine flu, we truly have nothing to fear but fear itself.
Stop Bashing the New Facebook
By ADAM R. GOLD
Since Facebook has no incentive to budge, we might as well try to get used to the changes.
Making a NASA Themselves
By ADAM R. GOLD
Rather than try to leapfrog so far past China that they’ll never catch us, we should instead co-opt them into our plans for planetary exploration and let them help cover costs.
Stem the Stem Cell Debate
By ADAM R. GOLD
While Obama’s speech about stem cells was a momentous one, concerned citizens on both sides of the ideological divide should be wary of attaching too much importance to Obama’s decision.
Not the Year of Our Lord
By ADAM R. GOLD
Creationists will point out that the Darwin
love-fest among scientists amounts to little more than devotion to a
religious leader, reinforcing the views of the nearly half of Americans
who don’t believe in evolution anyway.
STUBBORN THINGS
Crimson in the Streets
Student activists hurt their cause
By BRIAN J. BOLDUC
Monday, April 20, 2009 10:32 PM
Certainly, students are entitled to express their opinions on any issue.
The Boredomization of Politics
By BRIAN J. BOLDUC
Much of political science today is dull.
Rockefeller Republicans
By BRIAN J. BOLDUC
Harvard Republicans should show more confidence against their opponents and more solidarity with their allies.
Death of a Harvard Man
By BRIAN J. BOLDUC
Now, University Hall seems determined to train the
next generation of professional women, yet it seems to have forgotten
its men, explaining to them the boundaries but never the game plan.
The Best and Brightest
By BRIAN J. BOLDUC
The president should be leery of advisers who come from the same universities and work for the same administrations.
MODERNITY AND ITS DISCONTENTS
That Nameless Virtue
By CHRISTOPHER B. LACARIA
The lack of a moral ideal in education bodes especially problematic in the case of Harvard students, who, already confident and ambitious, deserve to have their talents and energies directed toward a suitably noble end.
The Politics of Condoms
When it comes to AIDS prevention, science stoops to narrow ideology
By CHRISTOPHER B. LACARIA
The unfortunate irony of this episode—as Africans continue to suffer from the pandemic—is that those who would arraign the Pope for callous disregard for reality are in fact the ones moralizing in ignorance of the data.
Obama and the Fightin’ Irish
By CHRISTOPHER B. LACARIA
In inviting a president whose recent agenda prominently has contradicted those tenets, Notre Dame intimates that the Catholic truth it purportedly upholds is malleable and appropriately sacrificed for the fleeting prestige that a presidential commencement address would confer.
In Vino Veritas
By CHRISTOPHER B. LACARIA
How far collegiate conviviality has fallen from the civility of a kinder and gentler era.
The Monopoly of Offense
By CHRISTOPHER B. LACARIA
Wednesday, February 25, 2009 10:43 PM
If Harvard should continue to boast of its politically correct values and dedication to multicultural awareness and understanding, it ought to extend that sensitivity to every culture.
Rule of the Wise
By CHRISTOPHER B. LACARIA
Obama, eschewing party hacks and otherwise unenlightened loyalists, has issued in a new era of American meritocracy.
Full of Sound and Fury
By CHRISTOPHER B. LACARIA
Unless Harvard is content to allow its liberal
tradition to become either merely a ticket for some to wealth and fame,
or a babysitter for the aimless academic and social pursuits of young
adulthood, it must seriously reconsider its educational role.
Another Great Awakening
By CHRISTOPHER B. LACARIA
Reasonable and realistic observers long have warned
enthusiasts of whatever candidate or party not to expect government and
other political institutions to be capable of solving every problem.
It’s Not Easy Being Green
By CHRISTOPHER B. LACARIA
Recent campus efforts to reduce Harvard’s carbon
footprint, and the excessive lengths to which the administration has
gone to promote them, threaten to render the whole project ridiculous
and inspire contempt for the cause in the minds of most reasonable
observers.
A Gentleman’s Education
By CHRISTOPHER B. LACARIA
Sports, in some respects more than academics, also teach the virtue of patience.
HINDSIGHT
Risky Business
By NOAH M. SILVER
While some problems with rating agencies are indeed structural, there are more basic issues of risk-taking behavior at stake that cannot be changed simply through regulation, cooperation, or incentives.
Foundations of Faith
By NOAH M. SILVER
To reflect the diverse array of faiths on campus and act as an inclusive home for religious life at Harvard, Memorial Church should become a solely interfaith space.
Collaborative Justice
By NOAH M. SILVER
Millions of lives have been compromised for what has become a P.R. stunt.
A Modern Mr. Harkness
By NOAH M. SILVER
After a decade of excess, the bubble burst. Stocks tumbled in a flurry of panic, as financial institutions collapsed. Amid the turmoil, as the endowment’s prospects worsened, Harvard’s plans for expansion fell into doubt.
Bridging the Capitalist Divide
By NOAH M. SILVER
Like any executive action, this leadership demands rationale—a justification for others to invest.
THE POLITICS OF CRISIS
The Private Cost of Public Poverty
Republicans may not want to acknowledge it, but states remain in desperate need of federal aid
By CLAY A. DUMAS
President Reagan was fond of saying that “government is the problem.” If nothing else good emerges from these next few months in states like California, at least the facile rhetoric of “government is the problem” and “starve the beast” will finally, a generation after Reagan, have lost its currency.
Of Cows and Carbon
By CLAY A. DUMAS
Hopefully, the threat of EPA regulation, and the political pressure for serious legislation that it engenders, will weigh seriously in the international balance leading up to Copenhagen.
Diamond in the Rush
By CLAY A. DUMAS
There’s an idea being circulated by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, and George W. Bush speechwriter David Frum, and even gracing the airwaves of “El Rushbo,” that could be the first truly bipartisan achievement of the Obama era: a payroll-tax holiday.
Son of Nuclear Option?
By CLAY A. DUMAS
How is it that, after winning more votes than any presidential candidate before him and having the largest Democratic congressional majorities in a generation, Barack Obama and his administration still lack sufficient votes just to bring urgently necessary—not to mention popular—legislation to a vote?
Hillary Goes to China
By CLAY A. DUMAS
As Hillary Clinton’s recent trip to Asia demonstrates, the most worthwhile strategy for pursuing Sino-American cooperation is teamwork on climate change.
The Glass-Is-Half-Empty Strategy
By CLAY A. DUMAS
As the party out of power, the Republicans are relegated to arguing that, whatever our economic circumstances will be in the future, the glass is half-empty.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE
Joining Euro(pe)
By PIERPAOLO BARBIERI
Ultimately, as the G20 recognized, the largest irony is that the countries worst hit by the current crisis are not the places in which it originated.
Don't Buy American
By PIERPAOLO BARBIERI
Even in the 21st century, there are people who actually believe that “Buy American” clauses are a worthy cause.
FIRE, FIRE!
By PIERPAOLO BARBIERI
Their fate is, at this point, unclear.
Although Western hopes for change in the human-rights arena around the Olympics were thwarted last year, the CCTV complex fire shows that the current government grip on dissent and free information will become, sooner or later, unsustainable.
What to Expect...
By PIERPAOLO BARBIERI
As the president-elect and his transition team seek to temper expectations around the many hot issues that decided the election, what should we expect from an Obama presidency in terms of foreign affairs?
FUTUROLOGY
Futurology 5
By KIRAN R. PENDRI
Gen Ed’s only hope for salvation lies in rationalizing the concept of required courses or fields of study by admitting that there exists a canon and that it is worth knowing.
Futurology 4
Television networks have got to get with the program
By KIRAN R. PENDRI
Sunday, April 12, 2009 11:49 PM
I understand that change in Hollywood, that iconic land of individual wheeler-dealers, comes slow, but the pussyfooting must end now.
Futurology 3
By KIRAN R. PENDRI
Traditional American newspapers will die—none too fast for the next generation of information proprietors.
Futurology 2
By KIRAN R. PENDRI
In a not-so-distant generational quantum leap, literally billions of well-fed, well-read, well-entertained, and well-capitalized young men and women will suddenly enter the matrix of humanity with heightened sense of self-worth.
Futurology 1
By KIRAN R. PENDRI
As societies slowly fix one of their most intractable problems, failed public education, I predict that they will grudgingly settle on the only credible solution—let the capitalists have a go.
PETRI DISHES
We Need to Talk
By ALEXANDRA A. PETRI
Increasingly, talking is something people do when other things are going on. Our generation doesn’t converse—we comment.
Fasting and Prayer
By ALEXANDRA A. PETRI
As I see some of my peers getting pumped for Purim, others giving up chicken for Lent, and others conscientiously forswearing any form of belief, I cannot help wishing that Harvard provided us the opportunity to engage with the complex fabric of religious belief both inside and outside the classroom.
Save Saturday!
By ALEXANDRA A. PETRI
Harvard should be giving its students more opportunities to think great thoughts without being interrupted by calls for grande lattes, not fewer.
No, We Can’t (Laugh)!
By ALEXANDRA A. PETRI
Obama isn’t funny. There, I said it.
THE F-WORD
Cougars and Carnivores:
By COURTNEY A. FISKE
Monday, April 27, 2009 11:09 PM
That a woman who sleeps with a younger man needs to be called anything other than a woman is disturbing, not empowering.
Veganism as Sexism?
By COURTNEY A. FISKE
Rather than viewing the two causes as a trade-off,
vegan activists, in betraying the hegemonic process whereby animals are
removed from the idea of meat, should underscore the similar process
whereby females are packaged as objects for the male gaze.
‘Sexiness’ or ‘Sexism’?
By COURTNEY A. FISKE
Ultimately, feminists cannot opine on the precarious line between sexy and sexism without legislating the location of that line itself and, therein, relinquishing all claims to the universality of their conclusion.
“Beside Every Successful Man”
By COURTNEY A. FISKE
More damagingly, Basham confuses the distinction between correlation and causation: women’s stated desire to revert to the home may have stronger grounding in the cultural myth of the happy homemaker and in the pervasive prejudices against women in high-powered jobs, rather than in a genuine lust for the kitchen.
Relationship Status on Facebook:
By COURTNEY A. FISKE
Facebook faithfully announces this romantic classification to hundreds of “friends,” many of whom are brief acquaintances or, at worst, complete strangers.
THE NEW PROVINCIALISM
The Great Divide
By EMMA M. LIND
In evaluating the current state of education in the United States and moving forward with teacher, student, and school accountability, it is crucial that policymakers and the public recognize the unique obstacles posed by rural and urban environments that hinder American children’s ability to obtain an exceptional education.
I ? NY
By EMMA M. LIND
There is, believe it or not, life outside of New York City. And, although it might be different, it
’s probably not as terrible as you think.
The Right To Choose (and to Protest)
By EMMA M. LIND
That the “University of Our Lady” should be a site of contention over a woman’s right to legislate control over her own body seems almost too perfect a coincidence.
Men Are Dogs
By EMMA M. LIND
Framing safe heterosexual intercourse in the
language of “men are dogs—protect yourself!” constructs a hypothetical,
collective female vulnerability that deprives women of agency in their
sexual encounters.
Hypocrisy on Tap
By EMMA M. LIND
The most exciting event since the expedition of Lewis and Clark recently hit the state of Oregon.
ON COMMON GROUND
Tragedy of the Heavens
By RAÚL A. CARRILLO
The only way up from the global fall from grace is to work together and consider what’s fair and important in the long run.
The Means of the End
By RAÚL A. CARRILLO
Tuesday, May 05, 2009 11:03 PM
Now, as military conflict—but certainly not everyday social conflict or even paramilitary conflict—descends into stasis, it is worth meditating upon what the war has been worth.
More Than Secondhand Smoke
By RAÚL A. CARRILLO
Thursday, April 16, 2009 11:36 PM
Drug wars are not Mexico’s problem. They are everyone’s problem.
Hail to the Chiefs
By RAÚL A. CARRILLO
A little more confidence in collaboration is a nice thing to have, and confidence, after all, is what recovery is made of.
The Return of Economic Nationalism?
By RAÚL A. CARRILLO
The idea of the “unfettered market” is nothing but a wild myth.
One Laptop, Much Controversy
By RAÚL A. CARRILLO
Every time a 13-year-old in rural Peru or Tuvalu touches a keyboard, she bypasses the Industrial Revolution and rockets into the Information Age.
PUBLISHED ON Wednesday, July 01, 2009 By NINA WEINER Ms. Roy fails to mention major facts that have contributed to the tragic condition of Gaza’s people since 1949.
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