“Memory takes a lot of poetic license,” Tennessee Williams wrote in the stage directions of his most famous “memory play,” The Glass Menagerie. “It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.” When The Glass Menagerie was first performed … Read more
3:51PM: Jenny Choi and Harleen Gambhir here in Sanders Theater. It’s so crowded here that we both would not have been able to get in without Valentina Perez’s help! (Thank you Valentina!) 3:59PM: It’s starting! – Jenny Choi 4:03PM: “The blunt truth is that men still run the world, and I’m not sure if that’s … Read more
I’ve been as Republican as a Republican can be. I grew up a Republican. I’ve voted for Republican candidates, interned for a Republican Congressman, and worked for a Republican presidential campaign. But I no longer count myself as a member of the GOP, and it’s not because I’m afraid of what people at Harvard think. … Read more
It’s rare that my Facebook News Feed yields anything too out of the ordinary, but last night, a click on a friend’s link eventually led me to this NPR article on a curious pattern in Russia. When the Communists took over in Russia in 1917, the first leader, Vladimir Lenin, was … Read more
In his hallmark philosophical essay, “Famine, Affluence, and Morality,” Peter Singer outlines a moral imperative to fight disparity. He argues, “If we can prevent something bad without sacrificing anything of comparable significance, we ought to do it; absolute poverty is bad; there is some poverty we can prevent without sacrificing anything of comparable moral significance; … Read more
“Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.” Harvard is a lot like Oz. Since getting here I’ve been dazzled by bricked roads, bourgie shoes, and bad weather. Everyone gets lesser version of Dorothy’s culture shock: thousands of the country’s highest achieving high school students won’t form a typical campus community. And beyond the … Read more
Dr. Tahirul Qadri, a Sufi cleric who had spent the past seven years in Canada after resigning from the Pakistani National Assembly, suddenly reappeared on the national scene in December at a rally of hundreds of thousands of his supporters in Lahore. After marching to Islamabad and speaking to a crowd of more than 50,000, … Read more
6:04 Today’s forum features discussions with former Ambassador, governor, and presidential candidate Jon Huntsman, Washington Post journalist Keith Richburg, and Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd – Colin Diersing 6:05 Huntsman has a past as a failed rock musician. Keith Richburg’s words, not mine. – Priyanka Menon 6:08 Huntsman on the future of US-China relations: “The … Read more
