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How to Get Away With Murder
Luigi Mangione has proved, irrefutably and gorgeously, that there is no excuse for becoming reconciled to a world of deductibles, debt, and fishies that got sucked into the filter.
To Fight the Climate Crisis, Harvard Needs the Humanities
If universities like Harvard want to be part of the solution to the climate crisis, they need to make the humanities part of their response.
How (Not) to Choose a President
As the Harvard Corporation, the University’s highest governing body, begins reviewing its selection process for University President Alan Garber’s successor, one thing is clear: higher education needs a champion.
Harvard Students Need to Stop Taking the Same Class Twice
College should be a time for academic exploration and challenge, not just finding the easiest classes to graduate. But in order for that to happen, Harvard must allow advanced students to take classes that match their abilities.
The Future is Conservative. Let’s Deal With It.
Engaging critically with policy rather than party, with person rather than opinion, is a promising first step toward improving the status quo of campus dialogue.
To Pee or Not To Pee: A Defense of Peeing on the John Harvard Statue
Traditions and culture, like ceremonial urination on our namesake, are the lifeboats we desperately need to save our sinking school spirit.
The Ivy League Needs To Stop Handing Out Participation Trophies
Without a conference championship game to determine which team earns the right to call themselves the best of the Ivy League, (almost) everyone can be a winner. That needs to change.
America Can’t Forget the Ivy League Made Trump
Harvard is not unproductive or broken, nor is it a training ground for radical philosophy. The University educates leaders on both sides of the aisle. For it to survive, it must lean wholeheartedly into that image.
The Season of Sickness is Here
There is nothing the college can do to prevent all illnesses — but it is Harvard’s responsibility to ensure students can still learn without infecting their classmates.
I’m Not an Alien. I’m Just Canadian.
So how can Americans better understand their sparsely-populated northern neighbor? Perhaps Harvard, the People’s University, is the perfect place to start.
Feeling Down About the Election? Here’s What To Do Now.
Our care for America must not merely be confined to a single month each election season. We can make our voices heard far more often — ideally, every day for the next four years.
Make Harvard Great Again
Harvard is in sore need of some administrative shakeup. It’s time for Harvard to take a page out of the great Vice President-elect JD Vance’s playbook: If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em.
We Can Have Harvard-Yale Every Weekend
Harvard-Yale will always be a hallmark experience. But there’s no reason why it has to be the one time each year we decide to show any kind of school spirit.
Harvard Needs More International Students
Harvard claims to be committed to promoting diversity, even after the downfall of affirmative action. It should be. It’s important for Harvard to represent all of the people of our country — but why draw the line at our borders?
Why I Protest Hillel
For the sake of Jews at Harvard and beyond and, ever more essentially, for the rights of Palestinians here and everywhere, I will continue to protest for a land that we may all call home.
Fixing Classroom Discourse Starts in the Q Guide
Harvard’s top brass can opine all they like about the merit of viewpoint diversity in the academy. But if we’re going to build an intellectually vibrant and diverse academy, we’re going to need to start with metrics that help us achieve that.
Cambridge Has a Good Alternative To Violent Policing. It Must Embrace It.
Cambridge has a policing alternative in its Holistic Emergency Response Team, and it could take some of its citizens out of harm’s way. It’s high time it commits to it.
Harvard Produces Political Losers
President-elect Donald Trump’s decisive victory proved, once again, that our liberal institutions desperately failed to meet the moment.
Professors Must be Held to a Higher Standard
Harvard, it’s time to apply the same standard to your professors that you apply to your students.
Harvard’s School Spirit Is Pathetic. Tailgate Restrictions Only Make it Worse.
I always assumed that pride in college football teams was a given. But then I came to Harvard.
Harvard’s Science and Engineering Complex Needs a Dining Hall
After the arduous journey to the SEC, you’re probably starving. But sadly, you’re left without options.
Admission by Affluence: How Harvard’s ‘Diversity’ Leaves Out Students From Schools Like Mine
Harvard claims it wants students like me — so why is it so intent on cozying up to the same set of schools year after year?
We Aren’t Too Old for Field Trips
If Harvard is truly committed to building the leaders of tomorrow, experiential learning — like the kind that occurs on field trips — needs to be a requirement within the Harvard curriculum.
Under Trump, Institutional Neutrality Cannot Mean Institutional Inaction
The University must clarify — explicitly — that institutional neutrality will not equate to institutional inaction in the face of policy harmful to Harvard’s academic mission or community members.
I Voted for Harris. Harvard’s Reaction to Her Loss Was an Embarrassment.
In the wake of Election Day, my peers played right into the hands of the right.