Harvard Political Review: What do you think will be the greatest challenges for Anglo-American relations in the years to come? Gordon Brown: I think the big challenge will be to recognize that together, America, Britain, and the rest of Europe can cooperate successfully to deal with global problems that demand global solutions. I think we have … Read more
October 24 is United Nations Day! The Millennium Development Goals were set up by the United Nations in 2000. With five years left to go, what progress has the international community made in achieving these goals? Featuring: Nicole Delaney is a fund portfolio manager for The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria. She … Read more
In my last post, I chided Harvard writers for the way they tend to write about the Tea Party. I said that our focus was too small. But that raises the question: What are my counterexamples? For this post, I thought I’d highlight some excellent writing on the Tea Party done by some of the … Read more
Last week, the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies released a report called Americans’ Knowledge of Climate Change. The document is the result of an extensive analysis of how well Americans grasp the practical and scientific nature of climate change, and by the fifth page, the authors have declared the quality of the knowledge … Read more
The Martin Peretz issue, it seems, is not going away. At least, that’s what the Undergraduate Council would like us to believe. Most students and faculty have moved on, for better or worse, and most probably aren’t aware of the UC’s latest legislative achievement: a bill that “fully condemns” the University’s decision to accept donations in Peretz’s honor. But the … Read more
10/21/10, 5:02 PM: I’m sitting in the CGIS Tsai Auditorium right now, watching Hersh’s lecture. This live blog attempts an accurate representation on his views. His main point is that Obama, who was elected as a candidate of “change”, has not strayed much from the trail of the Bush Doctrine. Seymour Hersh, one of America’s … Read more
When Sarah Palin’s first interview with Katie Couric aired, I laughed along with everyone else. I remember marveling at how inept a decision the McCain camp made in selecting Palin as his running mate. How could anyone take this woman seriously? Then when the Tea Party first emerged in early 2009, I thought, alright: there are some … Read more
I’d like to believe that there’s a place in our politics between caricature and indifference — between judgement (ie, praise, censure, etc), on the one hand, and dismissal, flat out rejection, on the other. As an editor of this magazine and as a student, I cherish the writing that avoids these fates: the writers that write about … Read more
Margaret Spellings on reforming education By Matthew Bewley Matthew Bewley: Looking back on No Child Left Behind—which you played a large role in passing and implementing—what do you think were its greatest achievements and its greatest flaws? Margaret Spellings: It was absolutely a major game-changer in reframing the conversation around outcomes and results of schools … Read more
Life time appointments to the Supreme Court are a double-edge sword. On the one hand, it is more difficult for public opinion to cloud the Justices’ readings of the Constitution. Without elections of the Justices, they are free from political pandering and saved from the possible problems of campaign contributions. Public opinion is inconstant, but … Read more