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Harvard students go through a lot just to prepare themselves to hook up. We imbibe tremendous amounts of alcohol to facilitate our sexual encounters (though some men take Viagra when alcohol hinders more than it helps). As much as we complain about the lack of attractive people at Harvard, we don’t get drunk to don our beer goggles—which simply enhance our Harvard goggles—or any other magically corrective eyewear. We get drunk, sadly, because we just don’t have it in us to engage in normal sexual behavior, and many...
Some Harvard students seem to enjoy having the deck stacked against them. They go out of the way to prove that the other side is too damned rich or strong or unethical. Or they complain that the electorate is too uninformed or uninterested or just plain mean. In both cases they act like it’s us versus them, like some mysterious body (the government or the corporations or the idiot voters) has all the power and we, with all our moral righteousness, just can’t get through...
Chomsky’s claim is echoed in the rhetoric of many students. Students complain that “the system” is responsible for the sorry state of our nation. Most people in this country would lose their lunch if they could hear Harvard students bitching about how little power they have, but most days I can listen to this kind of complaining with my lunch safely in my stomach. What struck me when I heard about the Immigrant Student Lobby Day is how wrong we are when we complain about our powerlessness. Every Harvard student has more...
There are plenty of reasons to complain about politics, and the radical critics of American government have good points. Money talks. Some politicians are corrupt; some are stupid; some are insane. But the cynics are wrong. “The system” does respond when we speak. If we work hard and work smart we can make change. Money talks because we don’t. Corrupt politicians stay in office because we vote for them. As Harvard students, we represent an elite with more power than most citizens will ever have. We’re not being kept...
This is not just bad history, but terrible politics. It is all the more ironic because the only conceivable reason for the Bitburg visit in the first place is politics: alliance politics. Kohl had a problem. His exclusion from D-day ceremonies last year gave ammunition to those who complain that Germany bears equally the burdens of the Western alliance but is denied equal respect. Reagan wanted to use this ceremony to help Kohl...