Battle for Boston

Flaherty is the best choice for mayor

By Maximilian W. Mason

Harvard students may not live in Boston, but they have a vested interested in the outcome of the Boston mayoral election. Read more

Oslo Robs 43: Bush Deserved Nobel Prize

By the Editors

On October 9, the American people awoke to learn that their 48-year-old President of nine months had won the Nobel Peace Prize for “captur[ing] the world’s attention.” Read more

A Voice for the Unborn Conceived in Rape

By Patrick T. Brennan

On October 23, guest speaker Juda Myers pre­sented a stirring presentation on the issue of abortion in cases of rape and incest at a meet­ing of Harvard Right to Life. Read more

ACORN: Enough is Enough

Congressional care for public funds should not require citizen outcry

By Gregory A. DiBella

ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, has received about $53 million in federal funds since 1994. Read more

Tobacco Wars

The social costs of smoking reflect the cost of liberty itself

By Kevin M. Neylan

Government efforts to stamp out smoking and combat the tobacco industry increased on two fronts over the past few weeks. Read more

Timeless Conservative Intellectuals

Four thinkers provide a voice for today’s movement

By Matthew P. Cavedon

In this age in which conservatism, and social conservatism in particular, is ridiculed as backwards and irrelevant, there are a handful of voices crying out in the intellectual wilderness for a more vigorous sense of traditionalism. Read more

Salient vs. Perspective

Cancellation of missile shield echoes past security mistakes

By Michael E. Cowett

Since the presidential election, Washington has consistently taken the side of those hostile to American interests. Read more

Et in Arcadia Ego

Harvard football remains worthy of appreciation

By Patrick T. Brennan

Amid all the tributes paid to Senator Ted Kennedy ’56 after his passing, perhaps the most moving was the no. 88 jersey hung in the Harvard football locker room in the days after his death. Read more

The Rhetoric of Social Conservatism

Bob McDonnell’s graduate thesis is worth the read

By Michael W. McLean

Manufactured controversy erupted last month when Democratic candidate for Virginia governor R. Creigh Deeds released sensational quotes from Republican opponent Bob McDonnell’s 99-page graduate thesis. Read more

The Race Card

Supporters of President Obama have one favorite card in the deck

By Dhruv A. Singhal

In both the Joe Wilson fracas and Glenn Beck’s “9-12 Project,” we witness yet again the nation’s two political factions competing for the status of racial victimhood. Read more

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