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 Dylan Matthews
As tens of thousands of conspiracy theorists, right wing survivalists, and revanchist malcontents of all varieties streamed into Washington, DC this past September 12 to protest…well, everything, it was all too easy (and fun!) to point and laugh at the various nuts parading through the nation’s capital. There was the requisite Confederate flag, [...]
By Joe Hodgkin
BOSTON – Since President Barack Obama took the oath of office in January and lifted restrictions on stem-cell research, the nation’s laboratories have been moving forward apace with their micropipette-ready projects. According to a scientist who has spoken on conditions of anonymity, the first batch of Scalopus anthropomorphus, a mole-human chimera formed [...]
By Madeleine Schwartz
The modern woman is powerful, well-dressed and cares for her children. According to advertisers, she also loves yogurt, cleaning her house and will buy anything that promises pseudo-sexual satisfaction.
Sarah Haskins thinks that these stereotypes are ludicrous and she’s ready to prove it. On “Target Women,” a segment on Current TV’s Infomania, Haskins mocks [...]
By Daniel Villafana
Letter from the Editor
Dear Readers,
The Harvard Viral Review was founded to aid students in their procrastination. Statistics I have just made up show that 40% of all-nighters are a direct result of viral streaming. We have all put off an assignment because YouTube is only a click away. If precious time is to [...]
By Joe Hodgkin and Ron Serko
Until everything fell apart, my heart lay with John Edwards
The soft hair, the soothing accent, the proletarian pandering…all too perfect! But Edwards soon abandoned me. I fell sobbing into the warm embrace of the junior senator from Illinois, whose soar-ing rhetoric felt like a coded message to a solidly leftist [...]