Governor Ed Rendell at the IOP Forum Live Blog
Ha Le reports live on Governor Ed Rendell at the IOP Forum
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The challenges of anonymity in public, political discourse
Obama and Democrats in Congress had a new proposal last week: require groups making public statement to show their face with their messages, reported the New York Times. For a country plagued with people using the veil of anonymity to mask unnecessary baseness, this can only be a positive change and a hopeful sign of a push for changes in [...]
Georgian President Vows “No Wine For Russia” at IOP
Well, not completely. But Mikheil Saakashvili, the President of Georgia, did boast yesterday that the wine produced in Georgia is simply so good (thanks to his free market reforms) that he hopes the Russians continue their embargo, because to sell it on the Russian market would be a waste – the Russians, he explained, will drink just about anything. If [...]
An Enlightened Approach to Illegal Immigration
Why the politics of immigration must be reconciled with reality
Tweet Summary of Halperin/Heilemann Forum
Can you blog Tweets? I don’t know, but let’s give this a try. For those of you who couldn’t spend an hour and a half at the Halperin/Heilemann forum last night, here’s a minute-and-a-half tweet rundown…. Waiting for Halperin/Heilemann forum to start. Definitely not packed. Maybe people are over the 2008 gossip? What about midterm gossip? Bill Purcell just said [...]
Live-Tweeting Mark Halperin and John Heilemann
Starting at 6pm or roughly thereabouts, I’ll be live-tweeting the IOP Forum with “Game Change” authors Mark Halperin and John Heilemann. Hopefully they’ve got some juicy gossip that didn’t make it into the book! Check it out at twitter.com/harvardpolitics!
Hank Paulson Forum Live Tweet
We’re live tweeting Secretary of the Treasury Hank Paulson’s conversation in the JFK Jr. Forum. Check it out at www.twitter.com/harvardpolitics!
Three Weeks of HPRgument
We began The HPRgument with the goal of creating a new space on campus for lively discussion of the things that matter — political, cultural, or Harvardian Since we began three weeks ago, debate on this site has been spirited and engaged: we’ve taken on the racial politics of Avatar, praised Obama’s “shrewd” bank tax, discussed the “ Sociology of [...]
First Friend in the Forum
Valerie Jarrett wowed the JFK Jr. Forum tonight. More than a few told me that it was their favorite Forum of the year, no small feat in a year of big names: Newt Gingrich, David Axelrod, and Nancy Pelosi. But, it’s not all about political stardom. The senior adviser to the President charmed us with class and smooth talked our [...]
What’s in a Peace Prize
The prizefare theory, as enunciated by David Frum, says pacifist manipulation: That Nobel was not a gesture of Obama-worship by left-leaning Norwegians. It was the very opposite: It was a pre-emptive strike against Obama, an attempt to neutralize him. How can a Peace Nobelist strike Iranian nuclear plants? Or wage a protracted war in Afghanistan? Or tell the Palestinians, “Sorry, [...]
