We’ve reached the end of a long, ugly campaign. When the networks project a winner (hopefully) tomorrow night, no doubt one ticket and a little less than half the electorate will be disappointed, but I don’t think anyone will be sorry to see this election season go. This young girl certainly won’t be. Mark Leibovich, … Read more
Students, IOP fellows, and community members congregate at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum in anticipation for the first presidential debate by President Obama and Governor Romney, held on October 3, 2012 at the University of Denver. The crowd watches as Romney flashes a smile during the first presidential debate on domestic policy. ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— With … Read more
The speaker for this month’s “Conversations with Kirkland” series was none other than Drew Faust, president of Harvard University. On October 17, in an intimate setting with no more than about 30 students, President Faust answered a set of questions prepared by two moderators and an additional few from members of the audience. The event … Read more
When I got the email about the event screening “Half the Sky,” I was interested, but not overly excited. I consider myself more familiar with global gender problems than the average person, which probably can also be said for most students here—at least we are aware that the problems are out there. But on a … Read more
Foreign Policy is out with a superb online special feature titled “Who Won the Great Recession?”, featuring a diverse cast of eleven pieces with such esteemed bylines as Slavoj Zizek, Joseph Nye, and Tyler Cowen. And while there’s no shortage of soft-power indulgence in the lineup (McDonald’s; Hollywood; Cheapskates, Pessimists & Food Trucks), where the … Read more
“You’ll enter a pitch black corridor and meet your guide. Introduce yourselves coherently and speak up during the tour. Tell your guide if you don’t feel well and you’ll be accompanied to the exit,” instructed an elderly gentleman. This is all I knew before I entered the “Dialogue in the Dark,” a unique interactive museum … Read more
The Presidential debates are here, the first on Wednesday, October 3rd. We’ve seen Obama against McCain, but his performance against Mitt Romney was underwhelming. By turning to old footage, we see Romney’s strengths (numbers, playing defense, refined answers) and his weaknesses (changing positions, being aggressive, surprises). While viewers saw many of these on Wednesday night, … Read more
Most Americans would recoil at the idea that Hollywood had once held hands with Hitler. Could such reassuringly American films as Inglourious Basterds and Schindler’s List have been prefaced by years of cooperating with the Nazis? Yet Ben Urwand’s The Collaboration and Thomas Doherty’s Hollywood and Hitler were released last year, the controversy was intense. … Read more
Sympathetic to his ideas or not, it is next to impossible to deny Steven Pinker’s matchless gift for writing popular psychology books that are at once incisive, stylish, and empirically weighty. Luxuriantly curly hair aside, there’s no excuse mistaking him for the less cerebral Malcolm Gladwell. And as a better writer, Pinker has attracted a … Read more
Dear Readers, It’s my pleasure to present to you Dispatch, the Harvard Political Review’s new print showcase of student opinion. At the HPR, we firmly believe that politics goes far beyond the confines of the daily polling numbers and presidential horse race. Politics—broadly construed—intersects with our lives each and every day, from sweeping regulation in … Read more