Columns
The Actual Arab Winter
Since 1949, American journalism on the Middle East has tended to concern itself with Israel’s security and, since 1979, political Islam. But these concerns encourage a shortsighted focus on surface-level political developments in the Arab world.
Passion Versus Paycheck
Is doing recruiting selling out?” wondered one senior English concentrator who has also considered trying to get a reporting job at a magazine. “I’m worried the lucrative stuff is going to feel really substanceless,” a government concentrator told me. Over and over, students I’ve interviewed describe their thinking in these terms: they feel that can follow either their passions or a big paycheck.
The Government Belongs to Us
The government of Pennsylvania can only exist as long as I vote it in. I need to send it that message in a hurry.
Aid Isn’t Enough
If Harvard’s administrators are committed to increasing the number of working-class and middle-class students at Harvard, they must address the structural roots of educational inequality.
PARDON THE COLLABORATION: A Rough Year So Far For Yale Football
Harvard’s rival in New Haven is engaged in what has become a year-long comedy of errors on and off the field.
That Hope Has Been Tested
Instead of sheepishly staking his electoral bid on a shaky unemployment rate and praying that the ticking time bomb of the European sovereign debt crisis explodes sometime after November 6, Obama can and should explain the shortcomings of his term.
Get Over It
There is a difference—a subtle yet crucial one—between saying, “we are great” and proclaiming, “we are the greatest.”
The Crimson Editorial Board Is Pleased To Announce Its Fall 2012 Columnists
Joshua B. Lipson, "Dining on Sacred Cow." is a bold, ideologically maverick column that challenges social and political orthodoxies on ...
It’s a Love-Hate Crime Relationship
There surely must be some rather problematic situations where the basis of discrimination is ambiguous. I can just imagine the court proceeding: “Well, your honor, the defendant made a snide remark about dental hygiene before killing his British victim. Two life sentences!”
Morons and Sam Baciles
It is easy to make sweeping, millenarian statements about Islam and Middle East foreign policy when you don’t have any skin in the game: no matter how hot things get on the street in Benghazi, Cairo, or East Jerusalem, Terry Jones and the South Carolina Republican Party will be just fine.
Was This Part of the Plan?
In no way do I wish to diminish or detract from the horrifying incidents in Aurora, but the manner in which we fail to pay attention to key underlying problems in American society thanks to our obsession with sensational news stories is worrying.
God and Rhetoric at the Convention
Americans are some of the most religious of the developed world, and it is commonly held that their path from the pew to the ballot is a short one. Even the secularized American is inundated with religious ideas and imagery.
Johannesburg in Transit
“The people who live here understand and appreciate the beauty of Johannesburg,” Tshandu stated. “This is just a glimpse of what makes our city so great.”
I’m Not Sorry
I would suggest that Islamism is only the weaker expression of a broader anger against power in its domestic and foreign forms.
Harvard Olympians Share Incredible Stories
In addition to late nights at the Kong and a couple of long-term projects with friends, this summer I had the pleasure of covering the Olympics for the Crimson.
