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Last week’s resignation of Mark J. Penn ’76 could have dealt a blow to Harvard’s presence in the political world—that is, if Hillary Clinton’s lead campaign advisor hadn’t been replaced by a...
The Dalai Lama's Greatest Trial I was deeply moved by Pico Iyer's "A Monk's Struggle" [March 31]. Despite the Dalai Lama's half-century of exile and the erosion of Tibetan culture due to the Chinese occupation of Tibet, the Buddhist leader maintains his lucid and compassionate...
The measure has its roots in the Great Depression and World War II. First the priority was tracking the ups and downs (mostly downs) of the business cycle in the 1930s. Then military planners needed a better way to assess production capacity. The result was gross national product (GNP), which...
The first is the movement towards considering everything in scientific terms. For example, incest is viewed as “bad” not because of a moral reason but because of the biological disadvantages caused by inbreeding. Old arguments based on values have been replaced by arguments over data...
Science historically developed as a response to religious belief. However, the modern synthesis of the Science—incarnated with its high priests touting new social laws based on new research—comes dangerously close to the dogmatic and inflexible systems of belief that it originally replaced. Science needs...