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What Makes Harvard Great

By Evelynn M. Hammonds and Timothy Patrick McCarthy
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The same forces behind events like January 6th and anti-LGBTQ legislation are driving the assault on higher education fueled by an unrelenting obsession with all things “DEI.” Their real target? Multicultural democracy and human freedom.

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I’m a Proud Zionist. Here’s Why I Ran a Famously Pro-Palestine Editorial Board.

As Hillel President and Editorial Chair, I learned the times I spoke with peers who disagreed with me led to the greatest understanding and sympathy at a time when divisions consumed our campus. It is up to us all to fight for respectful discourse.

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The Revolution Happening at Harvard is More Fundamental Than You Realize

By Tommy Barone
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Many have understood the changes Harvard has undergone as a response to pro-Palestine protest and the Republican assault. In reality, a sweeping reevaluation is underway at Harvard today predominantly because the University’s leaders believe in it.

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Senator Chris Van Hollen: Class of 2025, If Not You, Who?

Today, we face many challenges: economic inequality, climate chaos, brutal conflicts and wars, technological disruption, and a polarizing, poisonous political climate. And you, our next generation of leaders, have a say in how we respond to those challenges. You have a voice — but only if you use it.

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What Does Harvard Owe?

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None of these debts will be paid by defensive press releases or another round of task-force PowerPoints. They will be paid only by the hard, communal work of building a Harvard that is both excellent and broadly, unapologetically egalitarian.

Who Does Harvard Owe?

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This year, Harvard has been pulled in every direction — by Congress, donors, media, and its own constituents. In all the noise, one fundamental question remains unanswered: Who gets a say as to how Harvard is governed?

Harvard’s International Students Are People — Not Pawns

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Make no mistake: This is an attack on the fundamental value of pluralism — worthwhile for its own sake and fundamental to excellence and innovation. To protect our peers’ right to continue their education, Harvard can’t stop fighting back.

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Hold the World to Harvard’s Standards

As President of The Crimson, I personally witnessed Harvard students demand the best out of their institution. Why let that spirit go when we graduate?

Fight Fiercely for Harvard Values

Experienced voices are calling this a moment of existential crisis for Harvard and for American higher education. But for the Class of 2025 this crisis is also an opportunity: to fight fiercely for the values that Harvard has instilled in you, as it did in me when I matriculated here in the Class of 1964.

To the Class of 2025: Congratulations on a Life Lived in Four Years

In college you have played, consciously or otherwise, at the fullness of life. As you confront the end of this span of your lives, you have the blessing of reflecting on and growing from what you did and who you were, and thereby the opportunity to begin your adult lives wiser and stronger.

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Come At Me, Bro

I propose an alternate strategy: I shall fight Secretary of Education Linda E. McMahon in a televised cage match, the winner of which gets $2.7 billion in federal grants and the power to uphold or destroy America’s continued technological and economic success. Secretary, I hope you brought your mouth guard.

With Discipline Changes, Harvard Listened to Trump — Not Students

Harvard’s discipline problem starts with who’s missing from the room. Until students win seats at the table and presidential decree is swapped for participatory governance, inconsistent justice simply becomes consistent injustice.

Viewpoint Diversity and the Scientists

Yet, when we turn from science to the humanities we encounter postmodern arguments like Kuhn’s helpless relativism. Far from giving reason why science might be good, the humanities fail to justify themselves. They know they are not science, but then what are they, and what do they know?