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With the stadium now full, it was Yale’s turn to falter. The Bulldogs’ only trip across midfield in the second half resulted in a missed 27-yard field goal. The door was open for Harvard—it was just a matter of taking advantage...
American Republicanism is focused on the defense of individual political rights against a distant, inefficient, and predatory state. The Founding Fathers did not particularly want to kill King George. They wished merely to ignore him. Nor did they wish to turn American society upside down: Revolutionary Americans, like most Americans today, basically thought that their quasi-stateless society was working just fine. (Well, sort of, in any case.) The American Revolution was not about social change, and it is very suggestive that American Common Law went through the Revolution basically unaltered. Individual rights are the key to the soul...
...torture—including thousands of pages of documents and photographs secured through ACLU Freedom of Information Act litigation—the Obama Administration has thus far failed to hold a single one of those officials accountable for breaking the law. President Obama has said we should just turn the page, but we cannot move forward until we look back, discover how our highest officials chose a path of torture, and hold them accountable for atrocities committed in the name of the American people...
...undergraduate career by becoming a music concentrator and joining multiple ensembles outside of class. His love for a wide range of music—he was a member of the Harvard Glee Club and the Bach Society Orchestra, as well as chamber and jazz groups—would turn into a career notable for its versatility. Not only have his compositions spanned genres, but he has also taken up conducting and teaching...
...more necessary now than ever. If you cannot dance atop the tsunami of signifiers heading your way, it will crush you. Learn to breathe language, or else choke on it. If you cannot control it, it will control you. Your words will die on your lips; your thoughts will turn to dust. Taming unruly syllables—bending signification to suit your needs, understanding that everything is language, matrices of metaphor, of which you are a product—is a prerequisite for survival and success in the 21st century. Which will it be: the red pill or the blue...