Ahmed Maher Addresses Occupy Harvard

Ahmed Maher, (born 2 December 1980 in Alexandria), is one of the co-founders of the April 6 Youth Movement, and a prominent participant in the anti-Mubarak demonstrations in Egypt in 2011. Maher is a civil engineer who works for a construction firm in New Cairo. Maher attempted to organize several demonstrations after April 2008. However, … Read more

How Far Beyond Einstein We Are Now

Warped Passages Lisa Randall Ecco. 512 pp. $27.95.   Einstein was legendarily larger-than-life. He revolutionized modern physics while employed as a clerk in a patent office in Switzerland. He was photogenic in a silly sort of way, setting the prototype for the twentieth century’s depiction of mad science. He was quotable: “only two things are … Read more

From Occupy America to Register America

Many complain of the lack of direction of Occupy movements across the country.  Let me submit an idea:  if the protesters want to make a real difference, they should work to give “the 99%,” for whom they purport to speak, a chance to speak for themselves at the polls.  The outcome of the 2012 elections … Read more

Why Occupy Harvard?

A good leftist friend of mine recently suggested that there are “two good reasons” for occupying Harvard Yard — and that the occupiers had, sadly, “chosen the wrong one.” I was intrigued. For the question bearing down on me (on all of us), is why, one week later, is Occupy Harvard so unpopular? Why has … Read more

An Open Letter to President Faust

Dear President Faust, My name is Duncan Kennedy and I am a professor at the Law School.  I’m writing with a suggestion and a comment on how the administration, through the Harvard University Police, is handling the Occupy Harvard protest movement. My suggestion is that it would be a good idea, supposing that the University … Read more

The Court, Privacy, and GPS Tracking

This article is part of a collaboration between the Harvard Political Review and the Harvard College Tech Review to publish exceptional writing at the intersection of politics and technology. Visit the HCTR here. When technology advances, the law often struggles to keep up. In 1983, the Supreme Court ruled in U.S. v. Knotts that “A … Read more

Super but Silent

Super but Silent

After a last-minute agreement with congressional leaders this August, President Obama signed into law the Budget Control Act, averting a debt ceiling breach. As part of the deal, the President consented to the creation of a bipartisan “super committee,” charged with slashing $1.5 trillion from America’s ever-swelling deficit. With Congress unable to resolve its fiscal differences, … Read more