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Twelve Harvard-affiliated individuals made the list, including four current professors: law professor Noah R. Feldman ’92, human rights scholar Samantha Power, international relations expert Meghan L. O’Sullivan, and physicist Lisa Randall...
...called Prosperity gospel turned its followers into some of the most willing participants - and hence, victims - of the current financial crisis? That's what a scholar of the fast-growing brand of Pentecostal Christianity believes. While researching a book on black televangelism, says Jonathan Walton, a religion professor at the University of California at Riverside, he realized that Prosperity's central promise - that God will "make a way" for poor people to enjoy the better things in life - had developed an additional, dangerous expression during the subprime-lending boom. Walton says that this encouraged congregants who got dicey mortgages...
University Professor and Shakespeare scholar Stephen J. Greenblatt compares the presidential candidates to Shakespeare characters on the Comedy Central show. (Greenblatt enters stage right at the 3:20 mark...
...debate two undergraduates on the merits of “elite education.” The discussion panel, titled “The (dis)Advantages of an Elite Education,” was based on Deresiewicz’s controversial article of the same name, published in The American Scholar magazine, which focused on the flaws in liberal arts education in prestigious universities—what Deresiewicz called “Ivy retardation.” The two main disadvantages of elite education, Deresiewicz wrote in the article, are that it makes students incapable of interacting with people unlike them...
...years ago in the essay “Nature.” Fast-forward two centuries and the edgiest avant-garde cinema is just an application of the same principle—at least according to P. Adams Sitney, considered by many to be America’s foremost scholar of avant-garde cinema. Sitney was at the Harvard Film Archive (HFA) last Monday to deliver an illustrated lecture about the philosophy behind American avant-garde film. If anyone knows experimental film, it’s Sitney. At 16, he founded “Filmwise,” a journal...