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...Writing in his blog, my friend Shane K. Wilson ’07 quotes Pound Professor of Law Roberto M. Unger: “To gain freedom of insight and action in a more remote context, often at the price of ineptitude in an immediate one, is a definition of genius.” Without geniuses there would be no intellectual situation to speak of, only hollow feedback, the sound of measuring tapes flapping and brows furrowing. Genius versus critic is Lil’ Wayne v. Kanye West; Bush v. Cheney; Twin Towers v. Freedom Tower; Sal Paradise v. Dean...
...Fortunately, there are many in the community who hold that the mission of higher education requires values other than money—the not-so-corporate vow of “Veritas,” for example, or principles of justice, accountability, sustainability, peace, and freedom. Ours is the generation of 9/11, Iraq, Katrina. Wherever we stand, we have learned that nothing, not even the Harvard bubble, can insulate us from the world—nor should...
...schools of thought for their holes and shaky assumptions, and then find an alternative explanation or argument. I found that after a few months of studying money imagery in fugitive slave autobiographies that I could question the dominant critical narrative about these texts. They were not just stories of freedom through literacy; they were stories of freedom through numeracy, or mathematical ability and market savvy. Polemic is one of my favorite kinds of essays, but I have found that I have to be as cautious in my suspicion of prevailing arguments as I am self-critical about my own. Aggressive...
...quota. Here at Harvard, the administration should do all it can to assist our international students in need of visas.While issues of financing and immigration certainly bode ill for accessibility to education, equally dangerous to the university’s charge are threats to academic and journalistic freedom. In November, the administration at the University of Southern California blocked the re-election of Zach Fox as editor in chief of the Daily Trojan, objecting to his call for greater financial transparency and a reorganization of the paper’s senior positions. The administration’s willingness to actively...
...addition, Bok wrote that Harvard’s holdings in these firms was too small to have any sway over the behavior of the firms’ executives, and that using the school’s funds to make a political statement endangered the intellectual freedom of the University...