Op Eds
On the HLS Diploma
Harvard need not give up its rich Latin tradition in order to improve the communicative impact of its diplomas.
Homophobia at Harvard
It is deeply unsettling to conceive that a student at the hallowed halls of Harvard would cowardly accost others under the pretense of their homosexuality.
Random Acts of Gayness
My main objective with the random acts of gayness is to educate. Basing most of my strategy on the methodology used in “Pay it Forward,” I hope that the ladies across campus will start to share our knowledge.
“Don’t Ask” about ROTC?
The issue of ROTC on campus requires an informed and transparent decision-making process. Despite historical precedent, Harvard’s 2011 decision to “reinstate” ROTC was neither of these.
Stand Up for Voting Rights
Throughout US history, fears about voter fraud and competency have justified policies that aimed at the systematic disenfranchisement of demographic groups considered unworthy to vote.
Bakhtiyar's Road
In Azerbaijan, politically motivated detentions are tragically normal, but this specific case has stirred international attention due to Bakhtiyar’s status as a well-known dissident, parliamentary candidate, and youth organizer.
Don't Blame Communism
In recent years, Western media and scholarship have been ablaze with criticism of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) oppressive ruling ...
The Harvardian’s Guide to the Real World
Seniors, assuming you acquit yourselves well during finals (I’d say odds are 50-50), almost a quarter of you will join ...
A Fair Plan to Reduce the Deficit
There are two ways to address the mid-term to long-term fiscal deficit. One way, which Paul Ryan and the Republican presidential candidates prefer, is to eliminate every dollar that we spend to invest in our country’s future and support the poor and middle class.
Remembering The Last Hero
General Eisenhower, the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, said of the O.S.S-aided resistance that “without their great assistance, the liberation of France and the defeat of the enemy in western Europe would have consumed a much longer time and meant greater losses to ourselves.”
Stealing Libraries
On a much-vaunted recent radio broadcast by Britain’s BBC, the author Zadie Smith, in an effort to save her local ...
Getting In
Perhaps no amount of tutoring can make up for the feeling of not having truly earned one’s admission.
Protecting the Dignity of Discourse on Campus
Too often, we forget that freedom of speech is largely about silence. The dignity of discourse in America stems not merely from the right of each individual to speak freely, but from those who might vehemently disagree making space for that person to express themselves.
Engineers Who Can Lead
From vacuum tubes to transistors to semiconductors, from the telegraph to smart phones, technological innovation has been essential to America’s economic growth and global competitiveness. And behind every advance inevitably lies an engineer.
The Admissions Office Needs Your Help—Now and in the Future!
Do you remember where you were and what you were doing when you received the news that you had been ...
The Cost of Opportunity
As “I Am Fine” illustrated, what we don’t always hear are the sincere doubts that go further than complaints, and question how it is humanly possible to take advantage of everything happening around campus in this final month.
WHO Do You Support?
By the end of this century, more than one billion people will have died in a pandemic of immeasurable scale and wide-reaching consequences. The disease is non-infectious, easily preventable, and widely prevalent in both the developed and developing world. The diagnosis? Tobacco.
Island Nations
“If all the year were playing holidays, / To sport would be as tedious as to work.” Folks say these ...
Bunga Bunga Berlusconi
While we lack a Berlusconi, the United States might prove less different from Italy in our expectations for public leaders than we might hope.
Reclaiming Goldstone’s Missed Opportunity
Goldstone’s retraction allows us to reclaim the missed opportunity of his mandate, and ask the hard questions about appropriate wartime conduct that have so far been sidestepped in favor of political posturing.
We Gotta Feeling
Each of these events also shows admitted students a unique aspect of undergraduate life.
Labor Organizing at Harvard
The bitter immediate cause for busy Teaching Fellows in the 1970s was a cut in a major part of our compensation.
Tempest in the Tea
Modern Constitutional scholarship has understood the commerce clause as a broad grant of power, allowing everything from the detailed financial regulation of the New Deal to the civil rights act. The Tea Party, on the other hand, sees such far-reaching legislation as exceeding Congress’s legitimate power and untrue to the strict letter of the Constitution.