Unconditional Love: The Bond between Washington and Wall Street
By Ian Kumekawa 13 BANKERS The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown By Simon Johnson and James Kwak 304 pp. Pantheon Books. $26.95 A year ago, well into the economic downturn, Senator Richard Durbin (D-IL) noted that the financial sector remained the most powerful lobby in Washington. “Frankly,” Durbin said, “they own the place.” This sentiment, though perhaps a [...]
Continue ReadingThe Marketplace of Ideas
An interview with Professor Louis Menand Max Novendstern: I thought I’d start with the title of your book, “The Marketplace of Ideas.” I read your title as a sort of exhortation – that the university should be more engaged with the ideas, the institutions, the people that make up the “marketplace” beyond its walls, on the [...]
Continue ReadingJobless summer for Massachusetts youth
Given the current research indicating that youth employment is linked both to adult employability and a reduction in youth violence, it is vital that the Massachusetts legislature pass amendments to the state budget in order to support the safety and future of Boston teens.
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Lessons From Pre-Crisis Haiti
By Mikael Schinazi When a correspondent from the French newspaper Le Monde asked Haitian President René Préval about “the huge challenge of rebuilding” his country, Préval answered, “On January 12, it took only one minute for the Haitian state to collapse.” The devastation crippled other actors present on the ground at the time of the earthquake [...]
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Breaking the Mold
Obama Should Not Appoint Another Center-Left Justice With remarkable speed, the shortlist of contenders for Justice John Paul Stevens’ seat on the Supreme Court has narrowed to just three: Solicitor General and Harvard Law School dean Elena Kagan, DC Circuit Court of Appeals judge Merrick Garland, and 7th Circuit Court of Appeals judge and University of [...]
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Anish Kapoor’s Monument to the 2012 Olympic Games
By Mark Warren “Some eyes may detect a giant treble clef, a helter-skelter, a super-sized mutant trombone. Some may even see the world’s biggest ever representation of a shisha pipe.” This was how London Mayor Boris Johnson described Anish Kapoor’s ArcelorMittal Orbit, the colossal and controversial steel artwork that will be the centerpiece of London’s Olympic [...]
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Nuanced Imbalance
Gender Disparities Across Harvard Concentrations By Lucy Caplan In last year’s Women, Gender and Sexuality issue, Perspective investigated the longstanding underrepresentation of women among the Harvard faculty. As of 2008, just twenty percent of tenured faculty university-wide were female. Considering the recent hiring freezes, it seems unlikely that this figure will change significantly in the immediate future. [...]
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Modern-Day Slavery in America
Sex Trafficking and Labor Exploitation By Channing Spencer As a society, we tend to deny the existence of modern-day slavery and claim that slavery was abolished roughly 150 years ago. It is, therefore, important to acknowledge that slavery does exist in the world today and differentiate between historical slavery and modern-day slavery. As defined by Tim McCarthy, [...]
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Saving Women
Nick Kristof’s Post-Feminist Crusade By Max Novendstern You cannot blame an author for a book he or she never attempted to write – and you therefore cannot blame Nicholas Kristof and his wife Sheryl WuDunn for the fact that their extraordinary new book, Half The Sky, is not a book about feminism. But you could be forgiven [...]
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Introducing Harvard’s First Chief Diversity Officer: Dr. Lisa M. Coleman
By Channing Spencer President Drew Faust recently announced the appointment of Lisa M. Coleman as Chief Diversity Officer to carry out Harvard’s mission of increasing diversity in the work force. After speaking at length with Coleman, I have no doubt that she is the right woman for the job. A self-proclaimed optimist, Coleman’s enthusiasm and passion [...]
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Unconditional Love: The Bond between Washington and Wall Street
- The Marketplace of Ideas
- Jobless summer for Massachusetts youth
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Lessons From Pre-Crisis Haiti
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Breaking the Mold
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Anish Kapoor’s Monument to the 2012 Olympic Games
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Nuanced Imbalance
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Modern-Day Slavery in America
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Saving Women
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Introducing Harvard’s First Chief Diversity Officer: Dr. Lisa M. Coleman
