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Eli B. Martin
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What Is the Harvard Bubble?
The Harvard experience might be more sheltered, in its own way here in Cambridge, than living in the heart of a big city or going to work everyday. But maybe one of the strengths of such a mega-bubble as Harvard’s is to reveal itself more obviously to those encased within it.
Stealing Libraries
On a much-vaunted recent radio broadcast by Britain’s BBC, the author Zadie Smith, in an effort to save her local ...
Shall We Discuss Sharia?
Islam has a legal framework, which covers everything from diet to crime to interest rates, which can be enforced in voluntary tribunal courts; this makes a discussion on Sharia law especially important.
WikiLeaks and Secrecy
The media’s characterization of Assange as a “whistle-blowing journalist” is unwarranted
The E.U. and Regionalism
As the E.U. chips away at national sovereignty, with the introduction of the Euro in 2001 or the brand new appointments of a President and Foreign Minister (the former himself a Flemish Belgian) in late 2009, it naturally becomes harder and harder for countries like Belgium to maintain an already precarious national self-image.