To the Highest Bidder

Harvard should auction admission spots to close budget shortfall

By Michael W. McLean

A plummeting endowment and a recessionary economy brought the nation’s richest university to a spending freeze last fall, and as a harsh economic reality penetrated the Ivy Tower, generous spending turned into sharp spending cuts. Read more

An Untimely Death

Massachusetts Democrats seek an electoral double-standard

By Michael E. Cowett

Quick: who’s Charles Gibbons? Newland Holmes? Neither, to be sure, is a house­hold name. Read more

The Pitfalls of Symbolic Thinking

Harvard minorities make dubious use of the ‘race card’

By Roger G. Waite

It does not take keen observation to notice that the crimes and other police action at Harvard that get the most attention are the ones given racial colorings. Read more

Free Speech on Main Street

Listen up–the people are talking

By Anthony J. Bonilla

Over the summer congressional recess, America was a simmering pot of debate on health care reform. Read more

True Health Care Reform

The Obama plan is not the answer

By Christopher L. Oppermann

President Obama’s current health care proposal, contrary to its stated goals, will not remedy our national problem of rising costs for health care. Read more

Roger Porter Offers Principles to HRC

Sage Government professor explains Republican philosophy

By Michael P. H. Stanley

“Don’t have a party, and leave someone else with the bill,” urged Prof. Roger Porter on Wednesday evening, September 9th, at an ice cream social and open house held by the Harvard Re­publican Club. Read more

A Conservative Defense of Liberal Arts

Only certain courses dispel ‘the illusion of knowledge’

By Brian J. Bolduc

Thomas Sowell ’58 remembers his worst class in college. Read more

The Slackers Will Always Be There

But they need not be rewarded

By Mary Anne Marks

Someone at the front of the spacious auditorium hushes the surging sea of children, parents, and teachers. Read more

Climate Compromise

Conservatives should promote a carbon tax over cap and trade

By Peyton R. Miller

Thanks to the summer’s furor over ObamaCare, the recent attempt by Democrats to limit carbon emissions by way of the Waxman-Markey climate bill has received little attention. Read more

Profiles in Absurdity

Professor Gates makes a mockery of African-American studies

By Patrick T. Brennan

The arrest of Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., for disorderly conduct in June became an international news story, with commentators all over the world weighing in on an incident at which none of them was present. Read more

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