Op Eds
Our Democracy Is Broken, But We Can Fix It
Indeed, in the wake of Citizens United and years of weak campaign finance laws, there is a lot we do not know about how our elected officials reached our TVs, our YouTube videos, and our ballots in the endless campaign leading up to Tuesday, November 6
Criminality Is Not Born
Society may not have the power to mend every broken family, but it does have the power to make sure every young person has access to a quality education.
Treating in Tongues
The inability to communicate in a high-stress, high-stakes situation renders you stricken and powerless in a unique and terrifying way.
“Extraordinarily Rare” Is Not an Excuse
Today we say to President Faust: Climate change is an “extraordinarily rare circumstance,” and it demands the extraordinary action of divestment.
It'll Only Get Worse
The Middle East is hardly a model of stability. Civil wars, bloody suppressions, and international conflicts seem par for the course. However, the past few years have seen an increase in violent struggles in the region. And these recent upheavals are harbingers of future Mideast chaos, caused in part by the decreasing global importance of oil. An isolationist shift in American foreign policy, excepting only Israel, will exacerbate this trend toward regional destabilization.
Nate Silver Is not a Witch
Early this year, Nate Silver wore a halo. Having called 50 of 50 states correctly in November’s election, Silver was declared the true winner of the presidential race and even the staunchest of realists were starting to suspect there might be some supernatural forces on his side. His 1.000 batting average helped maintain his book’s best-seller status, drove unprecedented traffic to the New York Times website’s politics section, and won him the uncontested title of America’s favorite statistician.
The Price of Scandal
As sad as it is to say, the story is tried and true. Politician makes a grievous personal error and then denies it until enough evidence surfaces to make him admit the truth.
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Smartphone
The distractions we see clearly now will fade away as technology necessarily becomes faster and more invisible.
The Caricatures of Harvard
So it seems that both the right and left have a dystopian image of our school, one in which we’re all brainwashed automata, trained to be either greedy, conformist free-marketeers or hardcore leftists.
The Internet is Yours, So Protect It
You’ve grown up with the internet, developed alongside it, and stored a significant amount of your lives on it. And now you know that they, the NSA, are collecting your stuff, your information—not rightfully theirs, but rightfully yours.
Being the Majestic Mountain in Harvard Yard
The spirit of FOP need not be squandered come September 1.
