A University without a Country?
Samuel Coffin responds to a Crimson editorial criticizing ROTC's return to campus.
Articles By: Samuel Coffin 
Samuel Coffin '14 is a Staff Writer for the Harvard Political Review. Samuel is primarily focused on U.S. politics, but he is also interested in the politics of Eastern Europe and in political discourse at Harvard. Coming from the far southern realms of Georgia (as he often explains after questioning, not in the Atlanta metro area), he enjoys upholding conservative ideology. With that said, he certainly has no qualms about making friends across the aisle. Samuel is also involved in the Harvard Republican Club, the Harvard Salient, and Harvard Students for Israel. When not debating politics at Annenberg, he studies Russian, biology, and chemistry. In his few free moments, he also enjoys obsessively following college football (Go, you Silver Britches!).
Not Another Tebow Article
The religious intolerance that Tim Tebow elicits is obviously misplaced, but so are many of the story-lines surrounding the Evangelical quarterback.
ROTC Resurging
The tenor of the new debate on ROTC speaks a great deal to campus attitudes towards the military, and to campus activism in general. When I was accepted to Harvard, a frequent piece of advice given to me was something along the lines of “Don’t let the liberals up there change your views.” While everyone I knew was supportive of ... Read More
Pro-Choice Activists Fight a Losing Fight
Pro-choice Democrats are falling back on sensational rhetoric in response to status quote legislation and a growing pro-life tide in public opinion.
Weighing In: Updating the Constitution
I suspected that Wyatt Troia’s editorial piece in The Crimson would drive some political discussion at Harvard. After reading Sam Barr’s response, I think it is telling that Sam essentially cedes Wyatt his point that much of the liberal agenda does not have a Constitutional basis. However, by raising a number of pedantic issues that supposedly highlight infidelity with the Constitution, I ... Read More
