On a November 16 visit to the Harvard Kennedy School, Draymond Green, star forward for the NBA defending champions the Golden State Warriors, delivered a talk aptly titled “Athletes as Leaders.” Beforehand, some online criticized HKS for extending an invitation to Green, a professional athlete, to speak about political issues, a topic they claimed he … Read more
When the Atlanta rap trio Migos released “Bad and Boujee,” the rambunctious lead single off of their second album, it quickly became a viral sensation. Actor Donald Glover called it the “best song, ever” at the 2017 Golden Globe awards, spurring a 243 percent spike in Spotify streams. Memes adopting the song’s opening line—“raindrop, drop … Read more
The millennial generation has become a punchline—a monolith of entitled, dependent young people unable to detach from their parents and function in the “real world.” Popular media consider these traits to be inherent in today’s young adults, a result of the “you can be anything you want to be” ethos of child-rearing that is popular … Read more
Paula White, a wealthy televangelist and longtime friend of Donald Trump, has become an unlikely leader of American Christianity. The first clergywoman to pray at a presidential inauguration, White now serves as the head of Trump’s Evangelical Advisory Board, acting as his ambassador to the Religious Right. Trump and White are perfect for one another—both … Read more
Vocalized Expressions of Humanness “Iktsuarpok” is a word with no direct English translation. From Inuit, it best translates to “the frustration of waiting for someone to show up.” It is a word imbued with special meaning, and a word that may now be threatened. The Endangered Languages Project classifies the Inuit language as “vulnerable,” with … Read more
For many parents, striking a healthy balance between professional and personal lives poses a serious challenge, as mothers and fathers strive to be involved and available to their children while also achieving success and fulfillment through their work. Women in particular struggle to “have it all,” often finding it difficult to reconcile the expectations of … Read more
This past spring, IOP Fellow Jon Finer sat down with the HPR to discuss his career as a journalist at the Washington Post and policymaker at the State Department and the White House.
The 20th century featured frequent communist upheavals of established governments, especially in Asia. Through the October Revolution of 1917, the Bolsheviks created the Soviet Union, the world’s first communist nation, from the ashes of the czarist autocracy and the Russian Provisional Government. From Russia, communist fervor spread to China, with Mao’s Communist Party of China … Read more
While the world celebrated the return of the Apollo 11 astronauts in 1969, the crew was in clear violation of international law. The lunar rocks aboard the command module Columbia breached Section II of the Outer Space Treaty, which bans the national appropriation of the moon “by means of use or occupation, or by any … Read more
This article is a part of a series written by the Culture staff of the HPR. It is the product of discussion and debate at our weekly meetings, and reflects the opinions of the members present. Aung San Suu Kyi, once lovingly referred to as “Myanmar’s Nelson Mandela,” has recently fallen from the international pedestal … Read more