Mike Huckabee served as governor of Arkansas from 1996 through 2007. He spoke with the Harvard Political Review during his fellowship at the Institute of Politics at Harvard University. Harvard Political Review: Healthcare reform is at the center of America’s political conversation today. In 2005 you published a book entitled, Quit Digging Your Grave With … Read more
This is not an appeal. This is a memorandum; it is a statement to make note of facts that have been forgotten, or ignored. While this could have been a story about my own experience in the Rwandan Genocide, I do not want my words to be dismissed as another African testimony of the sort … Read more
The social books website Goodreads has an incredibly handy user-generated list of The New York Times’s best-selling fiction and nonfiction books of 2013. Most notable was just how many of 2013’s nonfiction bestsellers were written by conservative television and radio personalities. Bill O’Reilly was most prolific: three books of his, Killing Kennedy, Killing Lincoln, and Killing … Read more
There are two very different narratives about Sri Lanka. There’s the kind you read in the New York Times, the story about how now, even four years after the civil war has ended, the international community persistently demands that the Sri Lankan government more effectively investigate and prosecute alleged war crimes that took place at … Read more
“We have drawn that line. We are unwavering.” “That line” is the one between Zionist and anti-Zionist groups, and the man drawing it is Eric Fingerhut. Fingerhut is the president of Hillel International, an organization that oversees Jewish centers of campus life for hundreds of colleges in the world. Now, Fingerhut has threatened to expel … Read more
Alex Burns is a senior political reporter for Politico. He published this article about changes to the leadership of U.S. intelligence agencies after 9/11 in the Fall 2004 issue of the Harvard Political Review, when he was a contributing writer. Burns graduated from Harvard in 2008. On July 22, the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks … Read more
“GET BANKSY!” the front page of the New York Post declared, announcing that the New York Police Department had commenced a hunt for the “vandal.” Though the reports of the manhunt for the famed graffiti artist were debunked by Mayor Bloomberg, the headline offers a telling portrait of the tension between street art’s status as … Read more
October’s government shutdown revealed some troubling truths about the federal government’s ability to maintain operating capacity in essential public health functions. Particularly important to public health are the programs provided by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which oversees everything from the Women, Infants, and Children program (WIC) to preventing and mitigating public … Read more
“Being Muslim was like being from Mars … Jesus, on the other hand, was America,” writes Dr. Reza Aslan in his #1 New York Times best seller Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth. Aslan (Harvard Divinity School MTS ’99), the subject of recent controversy surrounding his biography of Jesus, has been criticized … Read more
Most people in China never see the inside of a lecture hall. UNESCO reports that less than a third of the college-aged population attended school in 2011. Moreover, the government continues to control the flow of information, even in universities. Accordingly, China thinks what its elite thinks. However, even though the elite who control information … Read more