On Monday night, thousands of people across the United States rejoiced after the death of the mastermind behind the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Here at Harvard, celebrations were much the same. When walking home from a meeting, I received several messages from other politicos on campus, and got wind of a large gathering that was brewing … Read more
Donald Trump, a prospective Republican presidential candidate and television celebrity, has taken to personally attacking the President’s credentials as a recent and burgeoning pastime. Recently, however, he may have struck a bit close to home for students like us at Harvard and its peer schools: he has questioned President Obama’s membership in the Ivy League. … Read more
Today, a variety of student perspectives were published in the Harvard Crimson on the death of the world’s most wanted terrorist, Osama bin Laden. I will always vividly remember the events of September 2001, watching my 4th grade teacher in Missouri receive a phone call and deliver the news that the Pentagon had just been … Read more
American troops have killed Osama bin Laden, and the United States is right to take pride in their achievement. That’s my view, and the view of most others you’ll ask. Upon hearing the news last night, Americans congregated outside the White House and crowded into Times Square to celebrate; even in Harvard Yard, many of … Read more
(The title should actually read “anticipates” or “predicts,” not “preempts,” but I couldn’t resist) Anyway, look at what she told Eli for his book review last cycle: Ruth Wisse nonetheless feels just the opposite: George W. Bush was a bona fide neoconservative mostly because of his foreign policy. “Bush really took evil seriously,” she says, … Read more
Last night, hundreds of excited Harvard students gathered outside my window in Matthews. Chanting “U-S-A! U-S-A!” and singing “God Bless America” and “Ten Thousand Men of Harvard,” these joyous, debatably sober, vuvuzela-carrying Harvard students celebrated the death of America’s most-hated enemy: Osama bin Laden. The ralliers in the Yard mimicked those outside the White House … Read more
The John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum hosted an event on Tuesday, April 26 called “Tea Party – What’s Brewing for the Budget Battle & the Ballet Box?” The panel of Tea Party spokespeople and journalists featured a conversation with Andrew Hemingway of the New Hampshire Republican Liberty Caucus and Jenny Beth Martin of Tea Party … Read more
During the late 1920s, as the American stock market was growing rapidly, prospects for economic growth could hardly have seemed brighter. President Hoover remarked in August 1928 that “in America [we] are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land. The poorhouse is vanishing from among us.” … Read more
In February 2011, tens of thousands of protestors took to the streets of Madison and occupied the Wisconsin State Capitol. In demonstrations modeled after those which took Egypt by storm, activists protested a proposed bill by Governor Scott Walker which would curtail the collective bargaining rights of state and municipal employees. Although the Wisconsin protestors … Read more
With legal challenges from 26 states en route to the Supreme Court, the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) has been called into question. The case is sure to be historic. “This will be the most important Commerce Clause case since cases upholding the Civil Rights Act of 1964,” Richard H. … Read more