Op Eds
Nothing Matters. Everything Matters.
Hard is still possible. Hard is meaningful. Hard things are what we did to get here.
Belonging at Harvard: Moving Beyond Acceptance
As I leave Harvard behind, I want to offer advice for creating a more inclusive future to University leaders, my fellow alumni, and current students.
Tiya Miles: Rip or Repair? How To Respond to Harvard’s Year of Crisis.
Repairing the university means defending the spirit of our collectivity. Class of 2024, ever excellent, ever resilient: we need you to help lead the way.
Sam Lessin: Pritzker’s Presidential Mulligan and How to Secure Harvard’s Future
Having run to become an Overseer and, now, having spent months engaging with alumni on the issues facing Harvard, I’ve learned much about how Harvard should proceed.
Ken Griffin: Depart To Serve Better Thy Country and Thy Kind
our predecessors committed themselves to active participation in our civic life, serving and sacrificing for the sake of others. Carry the torch that is now being passed on to you and build a future that unites us.
Larry Summers: An End and a Beginning For Harvard
As commencement marks the end of this difficult academic year, I hope it will mark the beginning of a time when Harvard moves past the urgent to the historically important.
I Led The Crimson Through Historic Backlash. Now, Harvard’s Pro-Palestine Protesters Face Worse.
Remember the members of our class not graduating with us because they were punished this week — in flagrant disregard of decades of University precedent — for peacefully and civilly exercising their right to free speech.
From the Anti-Muslim and Anti-Arab Bias Task Force: Many at Harvard Feel Ignored
We are the co-chairs of the Presidential Task Force on Combating Anti-Muslim and Anti-Arab Bias, and we write to share what we’ve found from our work so far — and where we’ll go from here.
From the Antisemitism Task Force: How to Repair a Fractured Harvard
Healing our fractured community will require time and effort. Recognizing the distinct ways in which Jewish and Israeli students have been hurt is an essential part of that process.
Joan Donovan: How Corporate Money Threatens Academic Freedom
Academic freedom only holds weight if every member of the academic community is committed to safeguarding academic freedom from external pressures.
Lara Jirmanus: What Would You Risk for Someone You Don’t Know?
As our tax and endowment dollars fund mass atrocities, we must use every means at our disposal to say never again.
To the Student Protesters Barred From Graduating on Time
The Ad Board’s bad-faith actions have damaged something that is essential for our great University to fulfill its mission: trust among faculty, students, and administrators.
From a Suspended Senior: With a Raised Middle Finger and Love in My Heart
I have found the freedom I thought Harvard would offer, but not in the ways one would think.
Harvard, Do Not Punish Calls for Justice
Harvard, do not punish your students for standing up for justice, peace, and equality — values that Harvard professes and has followed in the past.
The Past is Present: Four Decades of Anti-Apartheid University Struggles
Backlash against student actions calling for divestment from Israel is a testament to their importance. Let us remember that the protests against apartheid succeeded.
We Occupied the Harvard President’s Office. We Didn’t Face Involuntary Leave.
When we occupied Mass. Hall, we got awards. When today’s protesters occupied the Yard, they got suspended. Harvard should stop the double standard.
Harvard Should Follow Its Own Lead and Engage with the Protesters
We are the four Harvard Law students who participated in the 2001 sit-in during the Harvard Living Wage Campaign. It would be sensible and strategic for the University to act in good faith again today.
Is Garber Treating the Encampment Fairly? 11 Former Harvard Activists Weigh In.
As the University has taken more and more stern action against the Harvard Out of Occupied Palestine protesters, many members of HOOP’s coalition have asked: Is this fair? History can offer an answer. In this special package, we present four pieces from organizers of protest movements across the decades at Harvard reflecting on how their activism — and the administration’s response — compare to today's demonstrations. —Tommy Barone ’25 and Jacob M. Miller ’25
35,000 People Dead; Harvard Suspends Students Instead
No disciplinary consequence will stand between us and our commitment to a liberated Palestine.
The Case Against Negotiation
Those who urge the president to negotiate with the “encampers” seek instead to circumvent all of these institutions, effectively replacing them with a wholly unaccountable and unrepresentative ad hoc committee composed of individuals invited to the “meaningful dialogue.” The consequence would be to disenfranchise the vast majority of our community who would be excluded from these negotiations.
Navigating Speech Across Different Roles
My hope is that our students might both choose to prioritize their student roles by voluntarily departing the camp and reconsider how they exercise their civic duty.
What Have We Taught? Harvard Courses Are Academic, Not Ideological.
Harvard faculty and students are divided on many issues facing the University today. Yet despite these divisions, I hope we can always unite around an unwavering commitment to intellectual integrity, academic rigor, and good faith dialogue — foundational values for all research institutions.
We are Harvard Alumni. We Stand in Solidarity with Harvard’s Liberated Zone and a Free Palestine.
We are organizers with Harvard Alumni for Palestine appalled by the University’s complicity in Israel’s genocide against the Palestinian people and its repression of pro-Palestine, anti-war student voices.
Suspending Student Protesters Would Be a Palestine Exception to Free Speech
A good case can be made that the latest generation of student protesters have been unusually restrained. And yet only today’s student protesters face a mass suspension.
Harvard’s Pro-Palestine Protesters Have to Stop Weakening Their Cause
I believe Israel is committing atrocious war crimes in Gaza, but the pro-Palestine coalition has managed to make itself so incredibly difficult to support.