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Dhruv K. Singhal

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Happy Winter Solstice

But the presence of these solstice curtains—or whatever they are—destroys whatever case could have been made to argue that aesthetic restraint is the guiding principle of Harvard Square’s Yuletide décor.


Occupy Occupy!

And by roughing it in Harvard Yard—the epicenter of Ivy League liberalism—the Occupiers have even managed to polarize a community that had been otherwise largely well-disposed toward its cause.


Atlas Kvetched

But Schoen’s hysterical hyperbole demonstrates the fallaciousness of the widespread paranoia over the mirage of class warfare that has infected Republican partisans and centrist Democrat hacks alike.


The Central Powers

The fact is that in the polarized environment of modern American politics, the two parties generally rise and fall as collective entities, regardless of individual heresies.


The Betrayal of the President

But the sweeping degree of liberal discontent is just pathetic, for their disappointment in the President’s foreseeable inability to meet their comically inflated expectations is a direct consequence of their naïve belief in his ability to meet them in the first place.


Reliving History

There probably aren’t many things ex-Vice President Cheney and liberal comedian Bill Maher agree on, but one view both men ...


The First Gay President

Since becoming the newly-minted national frontrunner for the Republican nomination for president in 2012, Rick Perry now finds himself standing in a red jumpsuit before four bad-tempered bulls.


For a Black Pol

Race-baiting by black Republicans does something entirely new and different: it emphasizes their blackness in a way that cannot be anything other than politically and socially disadvantageous. It turns them into the “black candidate.”


An Anti-Manifesto Manifesto

On economic issues, I consider myself to be an adherent of the neoliberal consensus that arose with the market-oriented “New ...