By Sabrina Gharib Lee
Once again, the final club punching process is drawing to a close. Within the next few weeks, the entire membership of Harvard’s eight male final clubs will begin selecting their new members and will then initiate a class of approximately twenty, mostly sophomore, young men to each club. This final selection generally [...]
By Dylan Matthews
Reading Michael Cowett’s attack on the Obama administration for scaling back its missile defense plans in the Czech Republic and Poland, one would think that the Czechs and Poles had somehow been terribly wronged. “Obama’s missile defense plans severely undermine the security of our Eastern European allies,” Cowett wrote, “whose governments have long [...]
By Lucy Caplan
Review: Leonard Bernstein: The Political Life of an American Musician
296 pages, Hardcover, University of California Press, $24.95
To anyone who recently suffered through a grueling set of midterms, take heart: Leonard Bernstein received a C in one of his music classes as a Harvard undergraduate, and things worked out pretty well for him. [...]
By The Editors
There was something disturbing about the sight of self-professed patriots cheering as Chicago was ruled out as an Olympic host city. Yet their malicious glee was hardly unpredictable. Indeed, given their history, it should come as no surprise that these same individuals, who short years ago could reify patriotism in the figure of [...]
By Benjamin Hand
On August 4th of this year, the world lost one of its great philosophers. G.A Cohen, referred to by friend and foe alike as Jerry, was one of the world’s leading voices on analytical Marxism, distributive justice, and political philosophy. Perhaps no one in our time has thought so enduringly about rescuing Marx’s [...]
By Mark Warren
The voids in America’s Senate and spirit left by Senator Edward Kennedy’s death are much larger than a single seat or vote. But because of the efforts of Massachusetts legislators, the seat, at least, will be filled for the next few months by former Democratic Party Chair Paul G. Kirk, Jr. Following a [...]
“[If he really] thinks that humanity is destroying the planet, [why doesn’t he] just go kill himself and help the planet by dying?”
-Conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh responding to New York Times science writer Andrew Revkin.
“So we have Marxists that are designing and working on net neutrality–are believers in net neutrality” to “control content.”
-Glenn [...]