Columns
A Witch Hunt Is Targeting Black Harvard Faculty
We can’t let outsiders control the plagiarism narrative.
Time for the Left To Reclaim Academic Freedom
Academic freedom is a progressive force. Progressives should remember that.
Vote Alan Garber for Interim HUA Co-President
Yona T. Sperling-Milner ’27, a Crimson Editorial editor, lives in Hurlbut Hall.
Mandatory DEI Statements Are Ideological Pledges of Allegiance. Time to Abandon Them.
By requiring academics to profess — and flaunt — faith in DEI, the proliferation of diversity statements poses a profound challenge to academic freedom.
Don’t Eliminate. Improve.
All of us at Real Harvard, ought to recognize a certain vision of our teaching mission as one to live up to.
Lessons From The Living Wage Campaign
Examining the history of the Harvard living wage campaign provides us invaluable lessons for the labor struggles ahead of us on campus.
I’m Trans, and My Gender Is a Choice. So Is Yours.
It is time we embrace the idea that every person has the right to exercise autonomy over their own body and self-expression, no matter who they are. By allowing trans kids to access gender-affirming care, we empower them to make the very same choices their cis peers make each and every day.
The Market for Gems: How Harvard Courses Got So Easy
It’s not easy to fix the pernicious cycle of grade inflation and the market for gems it creates.
Harvard Should Break up With the Harris Poll
Harvard is lending its name to a methodologically flawed poll that often promotes a right-wing political agenda.
Truth, Social Justice, and the ‘Telos’ of a University
“Truth” – the holy grail of “knowledge and understanding” – is a seductively simple yet deceptively complex word, difficult to define, and dangerously easy to invoke and even weaponize.
Harvard, Academic Freedom, and the New Wars of Religion
My plea in these contentious times is that we at least tolerate each other — that we resist the urge to deplatform, attack, punish, and censor.
Rethinking Consumption: What We Can’t Grow Out Of
Just because the puzzle of consumption — and the complexities of balancing growth and sustainability — are difficult, it doesn’t mean economics students shouldn’t be invited to ponder, debate, and try to solve them.
Everything Wrong with the Legal Complaint Calling Harvard Antisemitic
The lawsuit against Harvard seeks to make censorship of ideas by the University into a policy required by federal law.
A-Minus the Effort
Attention! If you or a loved one have received a B-plus on your transcript, you may be entitled to financial compensation.
I’m a Progressive. Here’s Why I’m Glad Harvard’s New Provost Isn’t.
John F. Manning ’82, Harvard’s newly minted interim provost, is a conservative. He’s also an exceptional pick.
The Title IX Process is Like a Trial. Many Survivors Navigate it Alone.
The Title IX process is often one of the most difficult ordeals a survivor will ever endure. Harvard can show it is serious about protecting students by providing survivors with essential legal support.
Remembering Aaron Bushnell: Palestine and the Legacy of Self-Immolation
The least we can do for Aaron Bushnell is to speak up. To remember him, it is imperative we join the mass movement for Palestine that is working each day on the right side of history.
Trans People Can’t Afford Institutional Neutrality, Harvard.
Harvard can afford to be neutral. But neutrality is a luxury that trans people do not have.
Antisemitism Continues to Thrive in Garber’s Harvard
Harvard needs a president who will protect Jewish students from this explosion of hate. If Garber isn’t up for the job, it’s time for him to step up — or else, step down.
Harvard Can Kill the Diversity-Excellence Dichotomy
We must remind the world of our selectivity and rigor by tightening standards in undergraduate admissions and faculty hiring.
Harvard’s Bubble Economy Is Not the American Economy
We applaud Harvard’s attempt to free its students from the anxieties of navigating rent, groceries, and utilities. But it is important to recognize that this approach produces a cohort of young people insulated from the economy everyone else is waking up to.
It’s Alright to Demand the Disinvitation of Speakers
Speaker disinvitations may often be objectionable. But students have every right to pursue them.
Institutional Neutrality or Institutional Deception?
There are other things we can do to harden the University to the present sense of siege.
Take It From a Former Activist: Universities Need to be Neutral
Embracing the Kalven report can effectively sever the administration’s subtle yet influential grip on campus discourse and perspectives.