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To Be a Harvard Man
It shouldn’t be so difficult to say “I write about transgender issues at Harvard.” But as simple as they sound, these seven words make a whole world of difference.
Clubs, Classes, Houses: When Survivors of Sexual Assault Can’t Avoid Their Assaulters
Students shouldn’t have to trade the clubs and Houses they love for safety and peace of mind.
Sections Are Way Too Big
Our sections are too large, and students lose a lot of learning as a result.
If It Rights the Ship, Harvard Can Inform a New Renaissance
There are two kinds of people at Harvard: The people who help earn its reputation, and the people who live off it. With a combination of grace and grit, we can all be the former.
Make Harvard Happy Again
When I ask alumni how today’s Harvard differs from their own time, they often say they are baffled and saddened to see something that has replaced the love they remember: fear.
Everyone Should Be Allowed To Speak on Trans Issues
You shouldn’t need to be trans to speak about trans issues.
Addressing Harvard’s Attention Crisis
There is an attention crisis — one that threatens to rob us of many of the benefits of a Harvard education.
Your Choice, Harvard: It’s either Me or the SAT
After racking my brain for hours, I’ve finally found just the word to describe Harvard’s return to standardized testing: ✨problematic✨.
A Witch Hunt Is Targeting Black Harvard Faculty
We can’t let outsiders control the plagiarism narrative.
Time for the Left To Reclaim Academic Freedom
Academic freedom is a progressive force. Progressives should remember that.
Vote Alan Garber for Interim HUA Co-President
Yona T. Sperling-Milner ’27, a Crimson Editorial editor, lives in Hurlbut Hall.
Mandatory DEI Statements Are Ideological Pledges of Allegiance. Time to Abandon Them.
By requiring academics to profess — and flaunt — faith in DEI, the proliferation of diversity statements poses a profound challenge to academic freedom.
Don’t Eliminate. Improve.
All of us at Real Harvard, ought to recognize a certain vision of our teaching mission as one to live up to.
Lessons From The Living Wage Campaign
Examining the history of the Harvard living wage campaign provides us invaluable lessons for the labor struggles ahead of us on campus.
I’m Trans, and My Gender Is a Choice. So Is Yours.
It is time we embrace the idea that every person has the right to exercise autonomy over their own body and self-expression, no matter who they are. By allowing trans kids to access gender-affirming care, we empower them to make the very same choices their cis peers make each and every day.
The Market for Gems: How Harvard Courses Got So Easy
It’s not easy to fix the pernicious cycle of grade inflation and the market for gems it creates.
Harvard Should Break up With the Harris Poll
Harvard is lending its name to a methodologically flawed poll that often promotes a right-wing political agenda.
Truth, Social Justice, and the ‘Telos’ of a University
“Truth” – the holy grail of “knowledge and understanding” – is a seductively simple yet deceptively complex word, difficult to define, and dangerously easy to invoke and even weaponize.
Harvard, Academic Freedom, and the New Wars of Religion
My plea in these contentious times is that we at least tolerate each other — that we resist the urge to deplatform, attack, punish, and censor.
Rethinking Consumption: What We Can’t Grow Out Of
Just because the puzzle of consumption — and the complexities of balancing growth and sustainability — are difficult, it doesn’t mean economics students shouldn’t be invited to ponder, debate, and try to solve them.
Everything Wrong with the Legal Complaint Calling Harvard Antisemitic
The lawsuit against Harvard seeks to make censorship of ideas by the University into a policy required by federal law.
A-Minus the Effort
Attention! If you or a loved one have received a B-plus on your transcript, you may be entitled to financial compensation.
I’m a Progressive. Here’s Why I’m Glad Harvard’s New Provost Isn’t.
John F. Manning ’82, Harvard’s newly minted interim provost, is a conservative. He’s also an exceptional pick.