Op Eds
Israel vs. No. 2 Pencils
As countless students around the world took the SAT a week ago, Palestinians from the West Bank could not join their ranks. The October SAT exam was cancelled for students in the West Bank: The Israeli authorities held the exams sent by the College Board for weeks, not releasing the tests to AMIDEAST’s office in Ramallah.
A New Path for Venezuela
than anyone had previously, 10 points still represents a gap of over one million votes. If anything, we can expect Chavez to be even bolder in this next term, as he will use his victory as a way to legitimize his “Bolivarian Revolution.”
Depressed Yuan, Equivocal Yawn
China buys U.S. assets, and then sends the U.S. more and more manufactured products—all in exchange for the precious opportunity to spend long hours making those products, dump the revenue back into U.S. assets to depress the exchange rate, rinse, and repeat.
Meat the Flexitarians
The Meatless Monday initiative is definitely one worth adopting, and the looming threats bred by the intake of meat make me second-guess my decision to slather bacon onto a plate during Sunday brunch.
A Fractured Europe
Over the past few days, alarming protests have taken place throughout the northeastern Spanish region of Catalonia.
Sex, Discourse, and Harvard
This semester, the True Love Revolution seeks to continue the conversation, but we have renamed ourselves The Harvard College Anscombe Society.
The Hillel Problem
There’s nothing modern about keeping men and women separated at prayer services, or preventing women from singing Torah.
Sex and Sensitivity
When kids use the opportunity to participate as a chance to impress their peers by letting loose with insensitive, sexist jokes, they contribute to a culture in which women are devalued and sexual assaults considered less condemnable.
Setting the Record Straight
In a class that focuses on explaining how markets work, students will inevitably be exposed to more arguments used in favor of conservative policy than liberal policy. This apparent bias is not due to Professor Mankiw’s political leanings, but to the nature of the subject.
Re-Brand “IncestFest”
I am writing all this to explain that I am not only objecting to the name “IncestFest” because it is offensive and insensitive—although, indeed, it is, and it saddens me that this is not immediately obvious.
Raiders of the Lost Art
Now finding the next blockbuster entails making a stop at the comic book store and picking up the latest edition of a Marvel Comic or reproducing a movie made 30 years ago. No longer are the creative worlds of screenwriters coming alive in elaborate productions.
Service and Industry
Corporate social responsibility initiatives may be part of the fights for education reform, women’s rights, and an end to political corruption, but I doubt they will be sufficient.
Technocrats to the Rescue
I’m as much a fan of democracy as the next American, but our political system today is of the parties, by the parties, and for the parties. Somewhere along the way, the public good got lost in the shuffle.
Weaning Israel
If promoting human rights truly is a “central goal of U.S. foreign policy,” America must demonstrate this through encouraging peace and compromise instead of taking a passive approach in the case of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Endowed With a Choice
Divesting our endowment from fossil fuel corporations is not merely a logical response to the threat of global warming. It is the only moral response to a global human rights crisis and the only way to uphold the values of our Harvard community.
The Case for a Robin Hood Tax
The title of the tax alludes to its ethos: taking from the rich and giving to the poor.
Your Vote Counts
The power young people have in elections today is immense, as is their responsibility to impact our country’s future.
Kirchner’s Lack of Answers
President Kirchner has launched a campaign of harassment against the media and journalists, executing a strategy of information control we believe is designed to perpetuate her power.
Romney's Climate Reversal
That the discussion over climate change has been reduced to ill-informed sound bites is a disservice to the American public. We call on Mitt Romney to acknowledge the scientific consensus on anthropogenic climate change and provide the electorate with a concrete plan to tackle its effects.
Politics Matters
With just over a month left before we elect the President of the United States and not much longer before we elect the next President of the Undergraduate Council, you face a choice.
The Reality and Hope
As I watch the 2012 presidential campaign unfold, I am filled with very different feelings, most notably a deep cynicism.
A Romanian Crisis
To keep Europe together, Europe must stand for its core values and oppose those who threaten them. Only then can it uphold true justice.
More than the Status Quo: Encouraging Diversity in the UC
Fixing gender disparities in the college sphere will have an impact on who we are and how we interact with others when we leave Harvard.
Taking on BPA
BPA is thought to have disruptive effects on the endocrine system, causing reproductive abnormalities and elevating risks of prostate or breast cancer, cardiovascular disease, and diabetes.