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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.
