Columns
Cristina, Get Serious
The choices Kirchner makes are increasingly the wrong ones. And the cause of this seems to be personal, not political.
Reclaiming Our Republic
Who, on either side of the aisle, can justify billions of dollars in subsidies to enormously profitable oil companies? Or that six of the 400 wealthiest Americans paid no federal income tax?
Prostitution Pros and Cons
I, like most people in this country, think sex for economic profit is immoral. But I, unlike many in this country , believe prostitution should be decriminalized.
All of Us Are 'Hooligans'
I do not defend the actions of dictators and those who wish to infringe upon our rights, but I refuse to defend our general naivety about our own rights violations, which allows us to have an uninformed, condescending attitude towards the rest of the world.
Walden, 165 Years After Thoreau
Some days, I can hardly choose a class or a paper topic or a time to eat dinner without asking the person next to me what they think.
Theses Around the World
This past summer, while I was in Mozambique doing thesis research at a rural primary school, some of my classmates were scattered around the globe doing thesis research.
The Actual Arab Winter
Since 1949, American journalism on the Middle East has tended to concern itself with Israel’s security and, since 1979, political Islam. But these concerns encourage a shortsighted focus on surface-level political developments in the Arab world.
The Government Belongs to Us
The government of Pennsylvania can only exist as long as I vote it in. I need to send it that message in a hurry.
Passion Versus Paycheck
Is doing recruiting selling out?” wondered one senior English concentrator who has also considered trying to get a reporting job at a magazine. “I’m worried the lucrative stuff is going to feel really substanceless,” a government concentrator told me. Over and over, students I’ve interviewed describe their thinking in these terms: they feel that can follow either their passions or a big paycheck.
Aid Isn’t Enough
If Harvard’s administrators are committed to increasing the number of working-class and middle-class students at Harvard, they must address the structural roots of educational inequality.
PARDON THE COLLABORATION: A Rough Year So Far For Yale Football
Harvard’s rival in New Haven is engaged in what has become a year-long comedy of errors on and off the field.
That Hope Has Been Tested
Instead of sheepishly staking his electoral bid on a shaky unemployment rate and praying that the ticking time bomb of the European sovereign debt crisis explodes sometime after November 6, Obama can and should explain the shortcomings of his term.
Get Over It
There is a difference—a subtle yet crucial one—between saying, “we are great” and proclaiming, “we are the greatest.”
The Crimson Editorial Board Is Pleased To Announce Its Fall 2012 Columnists
Joshua B. Lipson, "Dining on Sacred Cow." is a bold, ideologically maverick column that challenges social and political orthodoxies on ...
It’s a Love-Hate Crime Relationship
There surely must be some rather problematic situations where the basis of discrimination is ambiguous. I can just imagine the court proceeding: “Well, your honor, the defendant made a snide remark about dental hygiene before killing his British victim. Two life sentences!”
