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...Four students began shouting at Mueller about a minute into his talk and continued yelling until they were arrested. This protest did nothing to generate any type of debate. I cannot think of a single person who was prompted to consider the FBI’s alleged infringement of civil liberties. In fact, I couldn’t even remember what the protestors were actually protesting until I looked...
...Harvard is an institution that aims to inspire civil, logic-driven, factual discussions. As its graduates, we must go into the world demanding these kinds of debates, even if we did not always find them here. We should draw on Harvard’s positive examples: I have seen, at times, constructive debate and genuine learning in classes, at the Harvard Political Union, Crimson editorial meetings, or just in casual discussions between friends. As the rancor and poisonous atmosphere in Washington seems to be spreading into Harvard, we graduates must make an effort to inject facts, logic, and civility into...
...recently finished a book that will be out in a few weeks on the geographical survey photographs of legendary Civil War photographer Timothy H. O’Sullivan, arguing that the experimental nature of these surveys influenced O’Sullivan’s surprising modernist aesthetic. Currently, he is focusing on a book about the role that chance has historically played in photography...
...than finding common ground. People who truly respect Islam, for instance, should be able to understand and fear the signs sent by Mahmoud Ahmedinejad’s millennial behavior: What is not considerate of Islam is to assume that those of its adherents whose theology brooks no separation of civil and religious authority will be motivated by the same incentives that we in the West are. This type of critical thinking finds rare enunciation in a place where all cultures and peoples are equal—except the uniquely deplorable entities that are Harvard and the United States...
...When Summers was named president in 2001, many believed the former Treasury secretary’s energy and reputation as an agent of change would make him one of Harvard’s greatest presidents. Instead, he left office after the shortest term of any Harvard president since the Civil...