Op Eds
A Religious Awakening
The College should internalize its motto and realize that the examination of religious matters is an undeniable aspect of student life here at Harvard that deserves to be accommodated.
The Audacity of the Voters
In 2008, I wanted change. The change I wanted isn’t the change I am getting.
Kill Obamacare
President Obama should drop his plans for health care and focus on the economy, which remains Americans’ main concern.
Ignorance is Not Bliss
The government should resolve to educate the American public about the fundamental idea of economics: the idea of having unlimited wants but scarce resources.
Summers’ Theory of Inequality
Is the Summers of our discontent correct, that XX does not equal XY when it comes to mathematics?
Into Thin Air
As world leaders continue to arrive and make their presence felt (or lack thereof), this final week of the summit has witnessed bizarre contradictions of rhetoric and procedural protocol.
Defending the Indefensible
It is imperative that Harvard adopt principled guidelines and vetting practices to ensure that war criminals and their official apologists—regardless of country of origin—not be given a platform at our university.
Harvard’s Allston Opportunity
What matters now is what Harvard will do both with what it already owns in Allston and Brighton and with the eight-acre site of the Charlesview Apartments that Harvard may soon acquire.
Stumping for Stupak
It is unreasonable to say that the Stupak amendment would curtail any women’s “right to choose,” and, moreover, there is no evidence it would lead to unsafe abortions.
Stolen by the Street
How many more of America’s young and brightest will ask themselves what kind of chumps they are to give up the chance to earn 100 or 500 times more than their mentors, their doctors, their favorite professors, their idols and heroes?
At the Crossroads
Only open debate and inclusiveness leads away from the business-determined road we’re on and toward the university whose highest goals are to educate its students and nourish its community.