Word: misguidedness
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By last October, not only were all vestiges of high-school Kristina gone, but so too was the “polished” person I had imagined I would be after four years of Harvard education and Crimson enthusiasm. I had expected to change and become more open-minded...
So which delivery method makes the most sense for distributing tax rebates? Here behavioral economics has been instructive as well. In particular, years of research have demonstrated over and over that our intuitions about the relative effectiveness of different approaches are often wrong. Over the years we’ve...
As CORI reform shows, protecting the citizens of Massachusetts is a worthy goal, but one whose initial steps can be misguided. The Safe Homes initiative—started this year by the Boston Police Department—involved police teams working with community committees to search for and remove any...
When Henry David Thoreau refused to pay delinquent poll taxes on the grounds that they would be used to support the Mexican-American War, he spent a night in jail. Harvard’s current conscientious objectors are treated a little differently. The Harvard Right to Life (HRL) campaign to...
On Monday, the Supreme Court ruled in a 6-3 decision that an Indiana law requiring government-issued photo identification at the polls is constitutional. We believe that both sides of the Supreme Court’s argument—that the law does not place an undue burden on...