Africa’s Growing Food Crisis
The need to balance food aid with long-term agricultural investment
On the Newsstand:Climate Change
Department of Horrifically Nerdy
I just bookmarked the new blog for the Office of Management and Budget. And you should too. Peter Orszag, the new director, is going to be one of the crucial figures of the Obama Administration, since he’s the one who will be doing a great deal of the nuts-and-bolts planning on everything from health care to climate change. He’s a ... Read More
The Myth of the Youth Vote
On a politically active and overwhelmingly liberal college campus such as Harvard, Barack Obama’s victory looks like a triumph for the youth vote. The impressive turnout to campus returns-watching events seemed the logical culmination of months of informal debate among students about the impending election and excitement surrounding absentee voting. The chants of “Yes, we can!” that erupted upon announcement ... Read More
It Matters What Caused It!
When I first heard Gov. Sarah Palin say, in the vice-presidential debate, that she would not “attribute every activity of man to the changes in the climate,” I wanted to believe it was a mere verbal gaffe. I assumed she meant that she didn’t attribute every change in the climate to the activities of men. She meant that we might ... Read More
The Ties that Bind
Bush, Evangelicals, and the Republican PartyBy Ray Duer ‘11 Coming on the heels of President Clinton’s scandal-ridden second term, and campaigning in 2000 as a “compassionate conservative” with the promise of a return of moral fortitude to the Oval Office, George W. Bush won the heart of one of America’s most powerful voting blocs, Protestant Evangelicals. In 2004 family values ... Read More
A Historical Perspective on the 2008 Election
I was recently reading the Harvard Independent (a mistake, I know), and one of the writers had a piece discussing two widely-read articles over the summer trashing students from Harvard and other Ivy League universities. I skimmed through most of it, and what really struck me was a passage mentioning Harvard students’ homogenized, unfailingly reasoned and moderate political positions. It ... Read More
