Crimson opinion writer
Lauren D. Spohn
Latest Content
Summer Postcard: Footgolf, The American Sport
First it was the Industrial Revolution. Then it was Beatlemania. The next revolution to hit the U.S. from the U.K. is coming. In fact, it’s already here.
Who's Afraid of Privilege?
We should think of privilege not as a one-off leg-up to kickstart a life of luxury, but as an opportunity—and one step further, as a responsibility.
Harvard’s Advising Needs a Nudge
No matter how helpful the resource offices, advising fellows, and websites may be, it won’t make a difference until we make those resources more convenient, advertised, and accessible for students.
Batman for Harvard’s Next President
Instead of asking which candidate has all the necessary expertise, we should ask which candidate will best cooperate with Harvard’s current experts
Notes on the Harvard-Yale Cockfight
If Harvard-Yale became the catalyst for a permanent attitude shift toward gratitude and real community, The Game might actually do more than represent Harvard’s gritty struggle for Ivy League hegemony.
A Tip From Einstein
We talk about the opportunity cost of extending classes and adding 15 minutes of passing time in between, but what about the opportunity cost of spending four years at a top university, too busy to take full advantage of its intellectual resources?
In Memory of Wainwright Merrill, Class of 1919
Do we really understand, as a generation, how much we’ve been given?
Fighting the Shadow Social Environment
In preaching that total inclusion is necessary to build “the Harvard community,” the administration forgets that exclusion, to some degree, is necessary for any community at all.
Pretty Things
What we have is who we are because where our treasure is, there our heart will be also.
The Manning Fallacy
In discussion sections, lecture halls, and even online forums, students without the proper identity credentials can no longer credibly opine on controversial issues—regardless of the intellectual merit of those opinions.
When Harvard Jumps the Shark
If we so focus on Harvard the home to the extent that we forget about Harvard the educational transaction, we risk not only inviting administrative intrusions into students’ social lives, but also, perhaps more sinisterly, adopting expectations that put emotional or social comfort before intellectual growth.
Big Brother’s PC Culture
In the wake of this censorship, the attitudes and ideas eschewed by PC vocabulary are becoming increasingly inexpressible.
