By Lawrence Bobo, Contributing Opinion Writer, Harvard Crimson, May 7, 2024. For many of us faculty members, these past few months have culminated in a series of superlative highs, wrought with a flurry of seemingly endless lows. We’ve endured the whipsaw experience of the great hopes for Claudine Gay’s presidency, fierce controversy on how to…Continue Reading Why Harvard Faculty Should Reject a Faculty Senate
By Christy DeSmith, Harvard Staff Writer, Harvard Gazette, April 22, 2024. A new study reveals the secret world of lawyers who earn top dollar lobbying government regulators. “Most people think of lobbying as something that happens in Congress,” said political scientist Daniel Carpenter, the Allie S. Freed Professor of Government and chair of the Department of…Continue Reading Lawyers reap big profits lobbying government regulators under the radar
By Christy DeSmith, Harvard Staff Writer, Harvard Gazette, March 21, 2024. A recent working paper charts the surprising politics of zero-sum thinking — or the belief that one individual or group’s gain is another’s loss — with a goal of offering fresh insight into our nation’s schisms. The buzzworthy paper was co-authored by Stefanie Stantcheva, the Nathaniel Ropes…Continue Reading Why are we so divided? Zero-sum thinking is part of it.
By Christy DeSmith, Harvard Staff Writer, Harvard Gazette, March 14, 2024. A group of real estate developers pitched Boston Mayor Michelle Wu ’07, J.D. ’12, early last year on the creation of incentives for building more housing in a time of high labor costs and interest rates. Like most coastal cities, Boston is gripped by…Continue Reading Lending a hand to a former student — Boston’s mayor
by Max J. Krupnick, Harvard Magazine, January-February, 2024 Most American school children learn about one Southern bus ride—on December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, when Rosa Parks declined to cede her seat in the white section to a white man. Her refusal and ensuing arrest sparked the yearlong Montgomery bus boycott and catalyzed the civil rights…Continue Reading Break Every Chain: How black plaintiffs in the Jim Crow South sought justice
by Sarah Lewis, for the Washington Post, January 14, 2024 Sarah Lewis is the John L. Loeb associate professor of the humanities and associate professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University, and the author of the forthcoming book “The Unseen Truth: How Race Changed Sight in America.” On March 31, 1968, days…Continue Reading Opinion: How we learn to see history: A case study at the National Cathedral
By Christy DeSmith, Harvard Staff Writer, Harvard Gazette, February 9, 2024. In 2016, President Barack Obama delivered a historic speech at Hiroshima’s Peace Memorial Park that recalled a tragic past but saw an imperative for a better future. “He didn’t apologize for the United States’ role in nuclear warfare,” Alondra Nelson said. “What he said is that the scientific…Continue Reading Need For Moral Revolution
By Ellie S. Klibaner-Schiff, Associate Magazine Editor, Harvard Crimson, 9 February 2024 The historian of science sat down with Fifteen Minutes to talk about gender, science, and her ideal superpower. “Science is done by humans in context in cultural spaces, and is inflected by those contexts,” she says. Sarah S. Richardson is the Aramont Professor…Continue Reading Fifteen Questions: Sarah S. Richardson on Gender Equity in Science, Interdisciplinary Research, and Purring as a Superpower
By John Lin, Associate Magazine Editor, Harvard Crimson, 26 January 2024 Henry Lee Professor of Economics Claudia D. Goldin speaks with Fifteen Minutes about her Nobel Prize, gender gaps in economics, and the Barbie movie.… FM: You just got back from the Nobel Prize ceremony about a month ago. Could you describe that experience? It…Continue Reading Fifteen Questions: Claudia D. Goldin on the Nobel Prize, Women in Economics, and the Barbie Movie
Harvard Crimson column by Steven A. Pinker, Contributing Opinion Writer, 29 January 2024 Harvard admissions should be more meritocratic. By “merit” I don’t mean cosmic merit — moral deservingness, a judgment by the almighty at the gates of heaven. I mean the traits that enable a student to profit from an elite university education, including…Continue Reading Harvard Admissions Should Be More Meritocratic
