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Targeting Online Piracy
Pirates who download a music album from a website like Megaupload are exactly like thieves who steal CDs from stores—except that there are no security cameras to catch them in the act.
We Can’t Wait: Helping Manage Student Loan Debt
Michelle and I know what it feels like to leave school with a mountain of debt. We didn’t come from wealthy families. By the time we both graduated from law school, we had about $120,000 worth of debt between us.
Gen Ed Must Go
With its senselessly rigid criteria the Program in General Education betrays the aims of the liberal arts.
Turkey Turning to the East
Having kept Turkey out of the European Union for so long, one might ask: Is the West justified in complaining about Turkey turning away from Europe? I don’t think so.
Righting The Courts
We need to encourage politicians to avoid framing every issue as one of rights, to stop appealing to the courts to resolve these issues, and to avoid rhetoric that encourages the kind of adversarial legalism that has led to increased litigation of personal and political issues in the past several decades.
Energy Myopia
Only a balanced approach to energy development will provide a long-term solution to our energy woes.
International Engagement in an Age of Austerity
As the international community is not a registered voter and politicians are eager to show commitment to a domestic base, the United Nations and other expensive international projects are often criticized in political rhetoric.
Financial Crisis Around the Corner
Europeans have no choice to stay true to their economic union if they want to avoid a string of defaults, bank failures, and crises that would leave Europe and the rest of the global economy in tatters.
Anna is India?
The man I am talking about, however, is Anna Hazare, a lifelong political activist who went on a twelve-day fast in August to force the Indian government to form an organization that could combat the large-scale corruption in government offices.
End 180:1
One hundred eighty to one represents the ratio of the highest-paid Harvard employee’s salary to the lowest. For a university with a $32 billion endowment, this wage disparity is ridiculous and embarrassing, and Harvard must amend it not only by ensuring good jobs for Harvard’s lowest-paid workers, but also by significantly reducing top executive compensations.
Tahrir Comes to Wall Street
Occupy has captured the imagination of a generation and challenged us to rethink how we understand politics as usual. One of the more startling aspects to the movement, however, has been the brutal response.
Reclaiming Marriage
One does not have to look far to see the threats posed by marriage’s decline.
No Strings Attached
Although China’s policies have drawn strong criticism from Western nations on the grounds of transparency and human-rights issues, they have yielded more tangible economic benefits for both China and its African partners.
Losing Liberty
The protestors have a right to be frustrated with the current system, but their demands reveal a profound disrespect for freedom and ignorance of the real culprits in America’s “rigged” system.
Combating the Facebook Index
In almost any Harvard class, one can see students checking Facebook, reading the New York Times, or checking their Gmail during lecture. Facebook during class has become so ubiquitous that no one even questions it.
