Letters
To the Editor: HMS Cannot Become a Soapbox
The most recent course evaluations show that students on both sides of the political spectrum seem to want more of their viewpoint, a sign that we are getting close to the correct approach.
To the Editor: Look to Alumni for Phone Policy Advice
Perhaps we can learn a thing or two about dinnertime phone use from alumni.
To the Editor: On Epstein and Freedom of Association
Nowhere, to our knowledge, is there a constraint on legally defending, corresponding with, or soliciting funds for non-Harvard projects from a convicted sex offender, even if these actions might have the effect of “legitimizing” him.
A Letter from the 2026 Class Marshals
We witnessed major changes at the University: three Harvard presidents, the Supreme Court’s decision on affirmative action, and federal funding cuts. These experiences were far from easy, but the special force of shared love for our class community kept us together.
To the Editor: Divestment Still Holds
Divestment is not futile. Pretending that money can be isolated from its political and environmental consequences is.
To the Editor: The Grade Cap Passes the Advanced Game Theory Exam
If we can’t rein in the perverse incentives that produce grade inflation, then we’re playing the wrong game.
To the Editor: Two Free Speech Principles in Tension
Faculty and students have the right to express their opinions. They don’t have the right to give the impression their opinions are endorsed by Harvard University.
To the Editor: America Needs Our Patriotism
You can change something for the better only if you believe in its promise and care about its future.
To The Editor: I’m A Conservative Woman at Harvard. I Couldn’t Be More Empowered.
I am a woman, I am conservative, and I was functionally rejected by JAS this fall. The implied narrative from The Crimson article is that conservative women like me are being excluded from discourse, doomed to watch the University’s conservative movement unfold from the sidelines. I assure you that is far from the truth.
To The Editor: On Ethical Friendship and Zionism
Letters to the Editor must respond directly and explicitly to either an opinion piece recently published on the Editorial page, or else to The Crimson’s manner of coverage within any section of the newspaper. Letters that respond to the subject matter of a non-opinion Crimson article, rather than The Crimson’s coverage of that matter, will not be accepted.
To The Editor: My Side of the “Apartheid Wall” Story
The Crimson's discussion of past incidents is highly selective, emphasizing cases like this one of alleged suppression of pro-Palestinian speech, while omitting instances of limitations placed on expression by Jewish students.
To The Editor: We Need Serious Public Discussion About Nationalism
Dr. Michael M. Segal ’76 is a neurologist and neuroscientist and a member of the Council on Academic Freedom at Harvard.
To The Editor: We Will Not Return to a Crushable Conservatism
Richard Y. Rodgers ’28 is the Editor-in-Chief of The Harvard Salient.
To the Editor: The Carr Center is Hyperfixated on Human Rights
We are hyperfixated on human rights, in serious ways: please join us!
300 Alums Call on HLS to Denounce Trump’s Attacks on Law Firms
More than 300 Harvard Law School alumni signed a letter asking Dean John C.P. Goldberg to speak out against the Trump administration’s efforts to penalize law firms for representing the president’s political adversaries in recent weeks.
To the Editor: On Immigration and the American Dream
It is tendentious in the extreme to refer to John Harvard, who moved from one constituent part of his native empire to another — specifically, to a city which was founded by his own countrymen less than a decade earlier — as an “immigrant.” The correct word is “settler,” and the distinction is not trivial.
To the Editor: More Proof of Harvard’s Ideological Conformity
By dismissing the Republican Party as a threat to truth, Risse ironically epitomizes the very problem he laments: the monopolization of “truth” by an elite, self-righteous left.
To the Editor: With Trump’s Election, Our Classmates Are Terrified for a Reason
Many of our now vulnerable classmates are living in fear that Trump’s next victims might not be a distant Haitian community in Ohio, but their LGBTQ+ friends or a cousin with a complicated pregnancy. And they will look at those on campus who gleefully cheer their impending hardship not just with anger, but terror.
To the Editor: Hillel Welcomes Critical Dialogue, Not Bigoted Protest
Hillel draws one very simple line in terms of acceptable forms of Judaism: One person’s expression of Judaism cannot deny another’s.
To the Editor: Harvard Conservatives Owe You Nothing
Until the administration finally commits itself to delivering the education we deserve, we will continue to pursue it ourselves, without regard for the Editorial Board’s opinions.
To the Editor: Harvard’s Institute of Politics Will Remain Nonpartisan
Nonpartisan dialogues are critical to moving our country forward.
I Lead Harvard Hillel. Attacks on Our Work Only Hurt Jewish Life.
Most disappointing about the open letter was the author’s sheer hypocrisy when discussing our Jewish community’s challenges.
I’m a Psychiatrist. The Crimson’s Got Its Psychedelics Coverage Wrong.
The Harvard Medical School ecosystem includes hundreds of psychiatrists, psychologists, and other mental health experts who could offer informed perspectives on both sides of this important debate, rather than relying on outdated anti-drug stigma or oversimplified rhetoric.
The School of Public Health’s Palestine Program is Complicit in Discrimination
The Crimson’s Oct. 11 report about the controversy over the Harvard School of Public Health’s collaboration with Birzeit University missed the central aspect of the dilemma.
I Published Nasser Abu Srour’s Book. His Story is Valuable.
As the publisher of The Tale of a Wall: Reflections on the Meaning of Hope and Freedom, I want to add that I researched as best I could the circumstances that led to Abu Srour’s sentence of life in prison without parole.
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