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...political engagement through volunteering, community service, and education work. Yet both are proven options, and both are far more effective than street theatre, or simple indignation. Today’s young people appear to have learned, from someone, that results matter. So, graduates from the past: take a lesson from the Class...

Author: By Robert A. Paarlberg | Title: Iraq, Vietnam, and the Class of 2008 | 6/5/2008 | See Source »

...read, built-upon, linked-to, and cited, even as journals publish them. The Law School followed suit in May. Here the university acted to free information rather than to control it. Harvard defied the predatory monopoly of journal publishers. Bravo, fair Harvard. “To thy children the lesson still give,/ With freedom to think …/ Be the herald of light …/ Till the stock of the Puritans die.” Harry R. Lewis is Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science and the author of “Excellence Without a Soul: Does Liberal...

Author: By Harry R. Lewis | Title: Copyright Harvard 2008 | 6/4/2008 | See Source »

Today, Hogwarts’ creator, J.K. Rowling, may offer a similar lesson about the world, but this time to the College’s outgoing students...

Author: By Esther I. Yi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Rowling To Give Commencement Address | 6/4/2008 | See Source »

...hard truth is that it's been 40 years since we have led a sustainable effort to fight for economic justice in this country. We had many successes and failures in the 1960s, but we've forgotten the most important lesson: in order to end poverty you have to make it a priority. Well, if Moses was able to find the Promised Land after 40 years in the desert, then certainly we can renew the cause after wandering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Do We Turn Away? | 6/4/2008 | See Source »

...robust brand seem to point in the same dreadful direction. Mistakes were indeed made at home and abroad—but progress may be on the way. Bush-era policies characterized by brash belligerence and simple overextension appear poised to be reversed, sophisticated, and otherwise repaired. Perhaps America, its lesson learned, can proceed along a middle path, spurning isolationism and unilateralism with one gesture, and march forward, in step with allies old and new, into an uncertain future...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Into an Uncertain Future | 6/2/2008 | See Source »

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