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When Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government (KSG) invited comedian and political satirist Al Franken ’73 to be a fellow at its Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy last spring, Franken was surprisingly unmoved...
...spite of Franken’s witty jabs at Harvard’s so-called prestige, he arrived in Cambridge last January eager to explain to 14 students in his hand-picked KSG study group that they were going to help research his next book, which would reveal hidden conservative biases in the media...
...KSG first asked Franken to be a fellow three years ago, but he declined so that he could stay at home in New York City with his son, then a sophomore in high school. But he promised to come to Harvard when his son was a high school senior, and so last year, he says, his time...
...KSG has waved away responsibility for the shameful decision, insisting that it only followed a University-wide policy. If this is so, then KSG abdicated its own role in bowing to a foolish rule rather than standing up for peace and inclusiveness. Whoever synchronized Harvard’s political clocks with the federal government’s made a serious mistake, and no matter how many excuses it comes up with, the KSG cannot erase the unconscionable impression that it is afraid of political controversy. In barring the Palestinian flag from this month’s proceedings, the school?...
...additional 500 seats will be reserved for faculty members, KSG students, and local Democratic activists, as well as members of the Harvard Republican Club and the College Democrats, Sykes said...