Harvard Discriminates Against Everyone
Making sense of discrimination in the college admissions process
Endpapers
Taking a Hike
Recruiting season comes every year at Harvard. In fact, I think it might come twice a year. Truth be told, I don’t really know when recruiting season is. There comes a day every autumn and/or spring when, strolling down Plympton Street at dusk, I see an army of well-dressed undergraduates hurrying past me into the New England night, and I ... Read More
Sweat the Small Stuff
Lessons learned from a summer working at the White House National Economic Council
My Country, Right or Left?
George Orwell once wrote that “contrary to popular belief, the past was not more eventful than the present.” If it seems so, it is only because events that happened years apart are “telescoped together” in hindsight, and because “very few of your memories come to you genuinely virgin.” My generation, having been born on the cusp of what some call ... Read More
The Fierce Urgency of Whatever
In a culture that often values boldness above all else, American politics is surprisingly allergic to big ideas. Despite the clamor over President Obama's health-care reform plan, it is important to remember that it proposes fairly incremental changes.
A History Lesson for President Obama
What 44 can learn from 35 Pundits are fond of drawing comparisons between John F. Kennedy and Barack H. Obama and, indeed, there are many parallels to be found. Like JFK, Obama captured national attention as a junior senator and ran for president without a great deal of governing experience. Like JFK, Obama campaigned as a liberal Democrat committed to ... Read More
