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...Salinger was an American icon. As the man who gave voice to a generation fed up with “phoniness” and the creator of the inimitable Holden Caulfield, it goes without saying that his work will outlast his life, which ended last week. In order to commemorate such an important figure in 20th century literary history—and one of our favorite writers from our own angsty adolescence—we solicited the help of several faculty members and students who know his work well...
...have been sleeping over break, but according to the Immediate Gratification Players "Czar" Scott A. Levin-Gesundheit '11, IGP—Harvard’s second-oldest improv comedy group—spent its month at NASA, learning about astronomical pursuits in order to prep for its Avatar-themed improv festival this weekend. (Note: he was joking...
...against you, not for you." The Haitian government has tried to show some positive signs of life. There have been several distributions led by Haitian police officers dressed in khaki uniforms with official Haitian patches embroidered on their sleeves. But the presence of the law does not translate into order. One distribution site at the makeshift camps of the Place du Champ de Mars quickly erupted into a frenzy, with government workers throwing bags of rice into the crowds. (Watch "What Is Slowing the Relief Effort in Haiti...
Obama claims to have scuttled Constellation in order to replace it with a partially privatized space program. But this is Washington doublespeak at its worst and nothing less than a cover for doing away with the program. Like national defense and fire departments, space exploration is at present a public good, optimally undertaken by governments. The private space industry has a very important role to play but it cannot and should not replace the role of government—the two are synergistic...
Most importantly, Aristotle’s notion of school as leisure should remind us that a thesis need not be required in order for us to study what we want. If students’ education, as the FDO rightly notes, ought to answer the question, “What do you want to learn?” then the College should establish concentration policies that give primacy to our answers to this question—not to a thesis or the interrelatedness of the multiple answers we might well give...