Jackson H. Barr
Jackson H. Barr ’29, a Crimson Editorial Editor, lives in Canaday Hall.
Latest Articles
DOGE the HUA
Co-presidents Berg and Zhao recently unveiled the largest cabinet in HUA history, which includes vice presidents of technology, history, advocacy, and service. Every last one is an empty suit.
2 Many Leaders, No Leadership
While bloat at Harvard is nothing new, the proliferation of co-presidencies among student groups is problematic.
The Case for a Freshmen Essay Repository
The freshman writing journey demands cross-pollination. Freshmen ought to be engaging with each other’s writing en masse, ought to be sharpening and complicating their own sense of college-level thinking through the dynamic novelty of their peers’ ideas.
What Harvard Can Learn from the Science Center Girl Scouts
What swipe-only access would certainly accomplish, though, is further alienating Harvard from the immediate world around it. Rather than lock the world out, we would shut ourselves in.
For a More Ambitious Humanities
When it comes to the crisis of the humanities, the call is coming from inside the house. Internal issues are also driving individuals away from the humanities, and none are more poisonous — nor more crucial to address — than hyperspecialization.
Harvard Can Handle the Attention
Either way you cut it — good publicity or bad — Harvard stands to benefit, whether in the promotion of the value it creates, or in the self-reckoning engendered by criticism of an institution best-equipped to act on it.