On December 11, 2014, India’s newly inaugurated Prime Minister Narendra Modi met with Russian President Vladamir Putin for the 15th annual summit between the countries. In a joint statement that followed, these two nations expressed their excitement for “a broad-basing of bilateral cooperation to carry the friendship between the countries to a qualitatively new level,” greatly strengthening ties … Read more
What do Ron Paul and the President of Ghana have in common? One is a former libertarian congressional representative from Texas and perpetual presidential candidate; the other is the reformist leader of a sub-Saharan African nation with a GDP per capita nearly one-twelfth that of Texas. Yet both, separated by an ocean of differences, could … Read more
After the recent outbreak of conflict in Ukraine, it has once again become fashionable for Western critics to cast suspicion upon the ideal of world peace. In a spate of responses to the growing crisis, writers argued that Vladimir Putin’s Machiavellian maneuvers made it clear that world peace is just an unattainable fantasy, and that … Read more
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In 1976, still dealing with the fallout from Watergate, Republicans and conservatives from around the country and across the ideological spectrum used the presidential nominating process as a proxy for debating the future of the GOP: would it continue with the mainline “law and order” Republicanism represented previously by Nixon, and then by incumbent President … Read more
In the Fall of 1974, after the dust from Watergate had begun to settle, renowned broadcast journalist Dan Rather sent in an article to the Harvard Political Review, forecasting the future of the GOP. His predictions are telling of the mood at the time: fraught with conflict and confusion after a betrayal by their party’s … Read more
HPR contributors weigh in on the consequences of Monday’s events.
This article was originally published by Albert Gore ‘69 when he was a senior at Harvard College. It was featured in the first-ever issue of the Harvard Political Review: Spring, 1969. The article is based on his senior thesis, published the same year, “The Impact of Television on the Conduct of the Presidency, 1947-1969” When … 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
Arrow’s impossibility theorem states, “Any constitution that respects transitivity, independence of irrelevant alternatives, and unanimity is a dictatorship.” In other words, no democratic voting system can be perfect. With the archaic Electoral College system still in place and the Democratic and Republican parties fully entrenched in certain states, the United States’ electoral system is, quite … Read more