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However, caught up in the glory of their cause, the College’s budding political philosophers have forgotten the more important question: Why should Harvard be democratic? After all, the vast majority of institutions in this world??businesses, sports teams, law firms, armies, hospitals, high schools—aren’t very democratic either. And like these organizations, Harvard University isn’t a government; in fact, it’s a corporation...
...College’s positively Jacobin interim dean, David Pilbeam, let the axe fall on the UC’s weekly party grants, the nascent micro-finance of Harvard’s social life. Party grants have propelled the development of a quasi-fetal social scene among the world??s most socially underprivileged animals—Harvard students—and our vital interests as students are wrapped up in their fate. We undergraduates, described as “citizen-scholars” by the UC Executive Board its Oct. 3 memorandum to Dean Pilbeam, have a right...
...individual American rarely faces any economic cost from climate change. The Stern Review, a comprehensive analysis of the economic costs of climate change produced by a Nicholas Stern, a respected economist, for the British government, notes that the negative impacts of climate change will be borne disproportionately by the world??s poorest people. Even if, as the report suggests, the cost of global warming will amount to 5-14 percent of global GDP, it is hard for Americans to fixate even briefly on the environment when the recent mortgage market collapse threatens a far more severe and dispersed...
...images on the jacket of Harvard psycholinguist Steven Pinker’s “The Stuff of Thought,” one gets a sense of what to expect from this charming and provocative investigation into language.For its author, language is a reflection of our conception of the world??and, consequently, human nature.Fittingly, Pinker uses cultural references, sexy verbs, and toilet allusions to describe the linguistic application of verbs and metaphors in the context of culture and humanity. Not only does Pinker have a lesson in psycholinguistics jammed into the book, but also a study of life...
...students from very wealthy families,” says Summers.Bok, though firm in his belief that Harvard should continue charging its students tuition, is intimately acquainted with tuition-free models. His grandmother started the Curtis Institute of Music—one of the most prestigious music schools in the world??which has never charged tuition. But Bok says that because of the different socioeconomic demographics of each school—the Curtis Institute has very few students who are very wealthy—different tuition models are warranted.“Should we allow the really wealthiest families...