In the first of a series of articles analyzing the recent Supreme Court decisions, HPR staff writer Matt Weinstein considers the Court’s decision in Shelby County v. Holder and the political aftermath. On Tuesday, June 25, in a 5-4 decision written by Chief Justice Roberts, the Supreme Court invalidated Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act … Read more
Time’s recent article by fat rights scholar and activist Abigail C. Saguy is disappointing on two counts. First, like many of the articles published in support of the burgeoning pro-fat movement, it relies on poor science and even poorer statistical analysis. The title—“If Obesity Is A Disease, Why Are So Many Obese People Healthy?”—would be more at … Read more
America prides itself on her competitive ecosystem: a jungle of companies that have to scratch and crawl their way to the top. The capitalist marketplace is supposed to leave only the fittest, leanest service-providing, product-producing species alive. However, the telecom industry has managed to carve out a comfortable, competition-free niche, and America has suffered the … Read more
Failing to pass last week’s farm bill may have been one of the smarter decisions reached by this gridlocked Congress, but the holdout was unfortunately, like the Nickelback song, a “Fight for All the Wrong Reasons.” Last Thursday, the U.S. House of Representatives failed to pass a farm bill for the first time in at … Read more
Two important elections happened this past Tuesday. First, in Massachusetts, a coalition of environmental activists, progressive union members, and white liberal Democrats propelled moderate Democrat Ed Markey into the second Massachusetts Senate seat. At the same time, in Washington, D.C., members of the Senate nearly unanimously voted in multi-billionaire hotel magnate Penny Pritzker ’81 as … Read more
Of the common archetypes in conservative thought, one of the most prominent is the notion that liberal arts universities are bastions of liberalism. Josh Lipson’s recent piece in The Crimson takes issue with this trope and asserts that conservatives should not conflate Harvard’s liberalism with a much stronger leftist ideology that hardly exists at Harvard. … Read more
“A lasting inspiration, sanctified By reason, blest by faith: what we have loved, Others will love, and we will teach them how…” –William Wordsworth, The Prelude In his final stanza of The Prelude, William Wordsworth unveils his own “lasting inspiration,” one rooted in the transmission of beloved ideas from one person, and generation, to another. … Read more
The Senate confirmed Penny S. Pritzker ’81 as Commerce Secretary today by a 97-1 vote. Some were expecting the confirmation process to be fraught with difficulty, given Pritzker’s past dealings with unions, financial disclosure forms, and tax havens. Another HPR alumnus, Alexander Burns ’08 even wrote an article in Tuesday’s Politico entitled, “On Penny Pritzker, where’s the … Read more
The iPhone, while designed by Apple in California, is not “made in the USA.” Instead, the iPhone’s production exemplifies the complexity of a globally fragmented supply chain. The iPhone’s components, including the flash memory, the DRAM, and the applications processor, are sourced from various suppliers like Samsung of Korea and AKM Semiconductor of Japan, and … Read more
“A lasting inspiration, sanctified By reason, blest by faith: what we have loved, Others will love, and we will teach them how…” –William Wordsworth, The Prelude In his final stanza of The Prelude, William Wordsworth unveils his own “lasting inspiration,” one rooted in the transmission of beloved ideas from one person, and generation, to another. … Read more