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April 28, 2020
Kate Aronoff
Don’t Let Larry Summers Block Climate Progress Again
He torpedoed clean energy plans in the Obama administration. Now he’s advising Joe Biden.
September 4, 2019
MagazineDaniel Bessner
The Fog of Intervention
Samantha Power did not set out to justify war.
August 28, 2019
Nick Martin
Deporting Harvard Students Was Always the Goal
Trump's anti-immigration policies were introduced with talk of "rapists" and "murderers," but that was just a pretext to come after the rest.
May 18, 2019
Lucy Caldwell
Harvard Was Right to Fire Ron Sullivan
The ex-lawyer for Harvey Weinstein isn't a victim of political correctness or #MeToo excess. He put his professional brand above his students' welfare.
April 2, 2019
MagazineMax Holleran
The Dean
Out of the ruins of war, Walter Gropius made a vital political community.
October 23, 2018
MagazineSamuel Moyn
A War Without Civilian Deaths?
What arguments for a more humane approach to war conceal
October 23, 2018
Jonathan Zimmerman
How Colleges Fail Young Trump Supporters
Students who back the president are afraid to speak up. Professors should encourage them to break their silence.
May 30, 2018
MagazineJillian Steinhauer
Outside the Comfort Zone
Adrian Piper’s art plays with identity and confronts defensiveness.
January 16, 2018
Sarah Jones
For disgraced Republicans, there’s always Harvard.
October 5, 2017
Emily Atkin
Harvard is already using Trump’s failures in Puerto Rico as a teachable lesson.
September 25, 2017
Graham Vyse
Betsy DeVos is headlining Harvard’s Koch-backed conference on school choice—with no critics of school choice.
September 15, 2017
Clio Chang
People like Chelsea Manning have always been unwelcome at places like Harvard.
August 10, 2017
Brian Beutler
Jason Chaffetz has no business at Harvard.
April 13, 2016
Clio Chang
This secretive, all-guy Harvard club has gone on record for the first time in 225 years, and it probably regrets it.
September 14, 2015
Arthur Goldhammer
Stanley Hoffmann Was One of the Great Professors of Our Time
April 19, 2015
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Michael Eric Dyson
The Ghost of Cornel West
What happened to America's most exciting black scholar?
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December 13, 2014
Nathan J. Robinson
Stop Eviscerating the Harvard Professor Who Threatened to Sue a Chinese Restaurant Over $4. He Has a Point.
November 24, 2014
Anthony Franze
The Supreme Court Justices All Went to the Same Ivy League Schools. So What?
November 14, 2014
Dahlia Lithwick
Yale, Harvard, Yale, Harvard, Yale, Harvard, Harvard, Harvard, Columbia
The thing that scares me most about the Supreme Court
November 6, 2014
David Fontana
How Republicans Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Ivy League
Several GOP candidates rode their Harvard resumes to victory

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