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...whining at Harvard is today facing a grave threat to its very existence. In a cruel blow to academic freedom, truth, and justice, the Faculty voted at its meeting this past Tuesday to put the kibosh on a motion by anthropology professor J. Lorand Matory ’82, which resolved, “that this Faculty commits itself to fostering civil dialogue in which people with a broad range of perspectives feel safe and are encouraged to express their reasoned and evidence-based ideas.” With such a blow to free speech, the Faculty have put their...
...would think it obvious that a room full of serious academics ought to support such a non-partisan, non-confrontational affirmation of free speech and academic inquiry. But on Tuesday, the motion was tabled. “People with a broad range of perspectives” now cannot “feel safe” here. Even as I write these words, I can’t help looking over my shoulder for the pack of torch-wielding, PhD-holding barbarians who are doubtless closing in on me, hateful of my broad range of perspectives...
...beginning, at about the turn of the last century, what management consultants offered was much clearer. It was called Taylorism, after its inventor, Frederick Winslow Taylor. Taylor called it scientific management, and it involved slicing up industrial processes into bite-size tasks and then doing detailed time-and-motion studies to determine the most efficient way to perform them. Described in hindsight as "the first big management fad," Taylorism was widely criticized--from the right as a step toward totalitarianism, from the left as soulless and alienating. It was famously parodied by Charlie Chaplin and Lucille Ball (remember Lucy...
...Guild or America, East and the Writers Guild of America, West, two organizations who together represent almost all American film and television writers in collective bargaining. The two groups, collectively referred to as the WGA, began the strike on Nov. 5 after refusing an offer from the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers (AMPTP). And in the ensuing division between studio executives and screenwriters, one surprising group has taken their places on both sides of the picket line: Harvard alumni.A HOUSE DIVIDED“There are no negotiations going on right now,” Patric Verrone...
...movie star who co-writes a screenplay (with a porn star, no less) about the end of the world as we know it. What Santaros and his co-writer don’t realize, however, is that they have unwittingly predicted the real apocalypse, set in motion by the deceleration of the earth’s rotation and a war-related accident in Iraq. The premise behind the prediction, according to Santaros, is that “the rotation of the earth is slowing down at a rate of .00000006 miles per hour each day, disrupting the chemical equilibrium...