Columns
Stop Complaining About the Laundry Prices, You Unpatriotic Cheapskate
And I’m proud to be a Harvardian, at least I know I’m free. And I won’t forget the liberal judges of the First Massachusetts District Court who temporarily gave that right to me. And I’ll gladly stand up next to you, and contribute every extra quarter I’ve got to stanch the bleeding.
Harvard Should Invest in Vocational Education
Now more than ever, Harvard is struggling to recast itself as serving the needs of the broader American population. While funding new programs may not be feasible under Harvard’s current constraints, in the long-term, it should consider how it can support a more diverse range of forms of education.
Harvard Must Confront Trump’s Demands for What They Are, Not How They’re Made
The real danger for Harvard is not reforming under pressure, but defending itself only on the grounds of pressure. If we let “who gets to tell Harvard what to do” replace “what should Harvard actually do,” we cede the substance of the debate.
Harvard Will Have to Sacrifice Something. It Should Be Our Funding.
In these trying times, it is the responsibility of students and affiliates to resist federal concessions in any way possible. Relinquishing our responsibility to defend higher education will come at great cost to the next generation of leaders.
AI Defeats the Purpose of a Humanities Education
While Harvard apparently worries that its educational programming is losing rigor to grade inflation and lax attendance norms, it can start making a difference by curtailing a problem in part of its own making: ban AI use, and the quality of humanities education at Harvard will improve.
The Women’s Center Is Gone — But Its Work Isn’t Finished
When I came to Harvard, I was fortunate that the University offered crucial support through the Women’s Center. I hope the same kind of resources are still available when I leave.
Harvard Needs the Kind of Exams AI Can’t Take
It’s time to do our work ourselves instead of delegating it to AI. It’s time to hold ourselves to the standards that the Harvard name implies.
Harvard Needs to Look into Industry for Scientific Funding
We are in dire times, which call for dire measures. Should disaster strike us again, it seems as if the best way for scientists at Harvard to keep the lights on is to collaborate with private companies — or else risk losing it all.
The Life and Times of The Canadian Harvard Jew
After considerable thought, I’ve determined the ideal American reaction to my patrial predicament would be: “Wow, what an enviable country you have, but we have no intention of applying sovereignty to it at this time.” I’m still waiting.
How Many Email Lists Does Harvard Need?
Of course, there are limits to what Harvard can do. But to provide as many opportunities to as many undergraduates as possible, it’s necessary that the College improves how information is disseminated.
Harvard Needs More Quizzes
Testing isn’t the enemy of intellectual curiosity. It’s an ally of convenience — an invitation to stop hoodwinking our peers on a weekly basis and hit the stacks instead.
It’s Time To Ban Laptops at Harvard
Perhaps if students were actually forced to listen in class (or at least to not actively ignore), they’d end up taking more classes they find legitimately interesting, and embracing the sort of vulnerability that comes with making eye contact with a professor and with peers.
Harvard’s Generative AI Policy Is Inequitable
But in order for AI to benefit every student regardless of their race, gender, or socioeconomic status, it must first be allowed in every Harvard classroom.
What the Empty Basement in Canaday Says About Harvard
While the quiet dismantling of the Women's Center and other spaces might sound like mere bureaucratic restructuring it reveals an unspoken yet potent truth: Harvard couldn’t care less about its own students.
Come At Me, Bro
I propose an alternate strategy: I shall fight Secretary of Education Linda E. McMahon in a televised cage match, the winner of which gets $2.7 billion in federal grants and the power to uphold or destroy America’s continued technological and economic success. Secretary, I hope you brought your mouth guard.
