Three years ago, more than 700 million people in India experienced a blackout that lasted more than 10 hours. Power outages of this scale are not just an inconvience; they also disrupt commutes and business activity, adding to Asia’s many economic challenges. Coupled with today’s overcrowded trains and roads, crises like the one in 2012 … Read more
Coming out as an atheist in America presents difficulties regardless of one’s political beliefs. According to polls by Gallup in 2012 and Pew Research Center in 2014, presidential candidates face more opposition from voters if they are atheists than if they used marijuana, had an extramarital affair, or had never held office. According to another … Read more
Dr. Seuss has achieved what few artists have: his sixty-one children’s books, from And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street (1938) to Oh, The Places You’ll Go! (1990) have captivated millions of children’s hearts—and their parents’ too. Dr. Seuss’s characters are charismatic, entertaining, and imaginative. Who doesn’t recognize the Grinch, the elephant Horton, or the Cat … Read more
Matthew Vines is the author of God and the Gay Christian: The Biblical Case in Support of Same-Sex Relationships and is the president and founder of the Reformation Project. He is widely known for his viral video “The Gay Debate: The Bible and Homosexuality.” Harvard Political Review: What was your community like growing up? Matthew Vines: I grew … Read more
Matthew Vines is the author of God and the Gay Christian: The Biblical Case in Support of Same-Sex Relationships and is the president and founder of the Reformation Project. He is widely known for his viral video “The Gay Debate: The Bible and Homosexuality.” Harvard Political Review: What was your community like growing up? Matthew Vines: I grew … Read more
I think that almost all of us at Harvard have insecurities about our place here, but but nobody likes to talk about them. Getting into Harvard is undeniably a prestigious achievement, but one for which I’ve always hesitated taking full credit. Perhaps it is a side effect of feeling like an overwhelmingly normal person at Harvard. Like many others, … Read more
Harvard occupies a peculiar place in the American political spectrum. Browsing the conservative media and blogosphere, it takes almost no time at all to come across an article berating elite American universities as bastions of unchecked, militant liberalism. For many, this criticism extends to all (non-religious) colleges, or as surprisingly durable Republican presidential candidate Rick … Read more
In November 2004, five months after Massachusetts became the first state in the country to legalize same-sex marriage, voters in Georgia overwhelmingly adopted an amendment to the state constitution defining marriage as being between a man and a woman. With just 17 percent of Georgians approving of same-sex marriage, the outlook for same-sex couples in the state who … Read more
While some students spend their summers traveling to other countries or interning in D.C., Sam Hagen ’18 would rather work with a Tony-winning director on a new musical. He is one of eight Harvard student interns at the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.), a renowned theater company located at Harvard’s Loeb Drama Center. An internship with … Read more
It’s 5:00 a.m. in Liaoning Province and a shrill whistle pierces the still air. All of a sudden, the lights turn on and a small group of eight-year-old boys springs up from the ground where they had been sleeping and start folding their blankets. They quickly put on their clothes and rush outside, meeting up with … Read more