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...restore high cultural artifacts to the complexity of the circumstances that produced them,” he says.Stevens adds that the inclusion of mass culture on the syllabus “exerts pressure on those who teach highbrow [works].”But Menand is not so na??ve to think that there will be no opposition to the trend he embraces. “There are people who think that the study of literature should be restricted to works that we pay close literary analysis to, that students shouldn’t write about pop culture for their...
...interests? I’m not so idealistic as to suggest that a permanent peace can be won solely through the Games, or that we should press for a return to the ancient Greeks’ practice of an all-encompassing truce for its duration. But it is not na??ve to think that through the Games, we can work to at least partially fulfill Coubertin’s goals. To be sure, it would require a radical shift in the way the Games are operated, thought of, and trained for. But imagine if instead of partying the night...
While we doubt that the growth of freshmen’s sexual enlightenment during the move from the Yard to Houses warrants the current unequal system, we sympathize with administrators’ fear of appearing to promote intercourse to na??ve freshmen. The solution to that dilemma, however, is not depriving sexually active freshmen of free contraception. Instead, CHI officials and the Freshmen Dean’s Office should focus on educating students about safe and healthy sexual lives...
Institutions such as Harvard have a special obligation given their great potential for influence. Yet to expect established institutions to head the movement for wholesale reform is na??ve. Rather, the passionate individuals that compose civil society must lead the charge. Only then will the various “enlightened” or “progressive” institutions follow suit...
...want to reawaken people’s desire to do good, people’s desire to improve their lives and the lives of others,” Ben-Shahar says. “Is it na??ve? I don’t think so. The greatest things in the world were achieved through people who were discarded very often as idealists, as na??ve. I think these are the kinds of people who ultimately make a difference. And there are many of them here at Harvard, and there can be many more...