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Everyone Should Be Allowed To Speak on Trans Issues
You shouldn’t need to be trans to speak about trans issues.
Addressing Harvard’s Attention Crisis
There is an attention crisis — one that threatens to rob us of many of the benefits of a Harvard education.
Your Choice, Harvard: It’s either Me or the SAT
After racking my brain for hours, I’ve finally found just the word to describe Harvard’s return to standardized testing: ✨problematic✨.
A Witch Hunt Is Targeting Black Harvard Faculty
We can’t let outsiders control the plagiarism narrative.
Time for the Left To Reclaim Academic Freedom
Academic freedom is a progressive force. Progressives should remember that.
Vote Alan Garber for Interim HUA Co-President
Yona T. Sperling-Milner ’27, a Crimson Editorial editor, lives in Hurlbut Hall.
Don’t Eliminate. Improve.
All of us at Real Harvard, ought to recognize a certain vision of our teaching mission as one to live up to.
Mandatory DEI Statements Are Ideological Pledges of Allegiance. Time to Abandon Them.
By requiring academics to profess — and flaunt — faith in DEI, the proliferation of diversity statements poses a profound challenge to academic freedom.
Lessons From The Living Wage Campaign
Examining the history of the Harvard living wage campaign provides us invaluable lessons for the labor struggles ahead of us on campus.
I’m Trans, and My Gender Is a Choice. So Is Yours.
It is time we embrace the idea that every person has the right to exercise autonomy over their own body and self-expression, no matter who they are. By allowing trans kids to access gender-affirming care, we empower them to make the very same choices their cis peers make each and every day.
The Market for Gems: How Harvard Courses Got So Easy
It’s not easy to fix the pernicious cycle of grade inflation and the market for gems it creates.
Harvard Should Break up With the Harris Poll
Harvard is lending its name to a methodologically flawed poll that often promotes a right-wing political agenda.
Truth, Social Justice, and the ‘Telos’ of a University
“Truth” – the holy grail of “knowledge and understanding” – is a seductively simple yet deceptively complex word, difficult to define, and dangerously easy to invoke and even weaponize.
Harvard, Academic Freedom, and the New Wars of Religion
My plea in these contentious times is that we at least tolerate each other — that we resist the urge to deplatform, attack, punish, and censor.
