Columns
The Art Space as a Non-Space
We can add the art space—gallery, museum, or art fair—to the list of universal institutional non-spaces like airports and hotel chains.
Harvard, Patriots Square Off Sunday
To be completely honest, I hope New England manhandles Buffalo. Don’t take it personally; I wish it on everyone the Patriots face.
The Case Against Marriage
All other benefits of legal marriage can be preserved by making civil unions, the secular half-measure currently offered to gays in lieu of full marriage, the norm.
Resilient Teams Go Farthest In Sports
As I boarded the bus around 4 p.m. on Sunday with the other members of the Harvard women’s soccer team, a single image was stuck in my mind: an improbable shot and the ball hitting net as the clock wound down in double overtime.
Speeches, Soundbites, and Shopping Week
The oratorical power of a professor, we believe, tell us much more than a mere syllabus or coursepack could.
Noting Harvard’s ‘Other’ Athletes
About one fifth of Harvard’s undergraduate population play on a varsity sports team, but it is estimated that more than four times that number are athletically active. According to the Harvard University Admissions Office, “When club sports, intramurals, and varsity teams are taken into account, it is estimated that over 75 percent of our students participate in some level of athletic activity.”
Soak the Rich
In other words, we have a President who is willing to raise taxes, even if it means lower revenues, for the sake of reducing the income of the rich. This class warfare mentality is reflected in the rhetoric he has used to defend certain tax provisions of the American Jobs Act that he introduced a couple of weeks ago.
Publishing Words: The Future of Books
Unlike an opera or ballet, the words of Dickens, Chaucer, and Shakespeare still ring true even on an electronic screen.
Early Mistakes No Cause for Concern
Concerns are brushed aside and discounted, and confidence bubbles to the surface. Talking to the players and Tim Murphy over the past few weeks, enthusiasm reigned.
Striking Flint Against Steel
Bouazizi catalyzed a revolution through the only act that could aptly symbolize its lonely desperation—self-immolation.
Harvard Athletics Boosts Fan Interest
Last Saturday, I watched the first night game in the history of Michigan Stadium, a matchup between the Wolverines and Notre Dame. Just about 115,000 fans showed up for the game, a record even for a school that hasn’t failed to draw a six-digit crowd since 1975.
Birk ’98 Highlights Harvard Football
Buffalo isn’t used to winning, and fans of the Crimson aren’t used to bragging about the prowess of our football alumni. But we should be. Because one of the NFL’s most consistently productive offensive linemen is Harvard grad Matt Birk ’98, currently with the Baltimore Ravens and a former standout for the Minnesota Vikings.
Crimson Rookies Support Soccer
With the departure of Katherine Sheeleigh and the Class of 2010, I was unsure what to expect this season as a new beat writer for Harvard women’s soccer—it was the start of a new era.
Senior Week Is Not the End
My most vivid memory of freshman week is sitting at IHOP picking at an overpriced bowl of fruit. A first college lesson: There is no good reason to order a fruit bowl at IHOP.
Before I Even Came to Harvard
The University gave me its best gift before I even set foot in Thayer 301. Harvard told me to take a year off.
Beyond Thought
This ability to transcend mere intellect—it is right to call it anti-intellectualism—is one of Harvard’s greatest qualities.
Conservation Made Simple
I am proposing these changes because the proper stewardship of our environment is the single most important issue facing the world today.
Kidneys for Sale
To establish a functional kidney market, Congress needs to repeal the ban on compensation and establish a regulatory framework.
The Meaningful Life
So for my last column of the semester, before I and everyone else on this campus burrows themselves into Lamont for the day, I want to talk about a baby.
Bin Laden's Mysterious Seven
On Sunday, the Situation Room heard the news: “Visual on Geronimo.” That night, President Barack Obama informed the nation what ...
Unfinished Business
Limiting the College’s liability seems to be the ultimate goal in student life policing (programming is too generous of a term), even when it comes at the expense of common sense, fun, and fairness.
Pass On Passwords
There is no magic bullet that will secure the internet in one step, but the current password framework is broken