Truth is a slippery thing. Truth, as it turns out, is not chiefly a matter of fact, but a deeply subjective endeavor. One need only delve into the matrices of the United States’ own obscured histories—Native American expulsion, African American slavery, Japanese internment, Vietnam, Iraq—to realize this. Abroad, a good number of Frenchmen still object … Read more
She went to Sarajevo during the civil war, singing while the bombs fell. She called an album “Where Are You Now, My Son?” after a twenty-minute song filled with confusion, mourning, a mother’s cries, the sound of death. She called it singing, but the lyrics were moans and the music was air raid sirens, parts of … Read more
With the sun making its way over the Ko’olau Mountains and onto the shores of Waikiki, it is a perfect day in tropical paradise. As she leaves behind the local island pidgin dialect of her home, a young girl catches a streetcar to school, where she will learn not only to dress like her American classmates … Read more
North Korean agent Park Mu-young scans the downtown high-rises and bustling crowds of Seoul. His hair is long, his face worn from years of bitterness. In an eerily calm voice, he says into his phone, “Slow down, friend. The first one is on the roof of the Golden Tower. You have exactly thirty minutes.” The … Read more
“I was told once that if I wanted to go protest something I should have gone to UC Berkeley and not Harvard,” said Karely Osorio, member of the Student Labor Action Movement. Despite housing a student-led non-profit with eighty-six programs and its own center dedicated to politics and public service, Harvard is not known … Read more
On October 23, the New York Times published a minor story with a concerning focus: the potential use of chlorine gas by ISIS. More than two months later, no confirmation or denial has emerged from the investigation about ISIS’ purported use of chemical weapons. Alarm bells have not been raised, although ISIS likely has obtained … Read more
Dr. Phil McGraw was a longtime guest of The Oprah Winfrey Show before launching his eponymous series in 2002. He has appeared on over 2,000 hours of national television programming, using his platform to highlight mental health issues. Harvard Political Review: How would you characterize your role in framing the national conversation surrounding mental health … Read more
Harvard College’s Math 55a is known for being difficult and time-consuming. Its students must be talented, capable, and willing to put in endless hours per week to complete fiendishly difficult problem sets. This year, they share another trait: they are all male. This is just one sign of a gender balance problem that has … Read more
Wafa Idris was the first of her kind in modern Palestine. She was featured on the cover of Time magazine at the young age of 28. Saddam Hussein ordered a memorial erected in her honor in one of Baghdad’s central squares. Newspapers in Egypt, Jordan, and London praised her courage. Women named their daughters after … Read more
Daryl Davis is a race relations expert and author of Klan-Destine Relationships, a non-fiction book which chronicles his outreach efforts to Ku Klux Klan members. Harvard Political Review: You have a pretty phenomenal story. What motivated you to reach out to the Ku Klux Klan? Daryl Davis: It was a combination of things. As a … Read more