Even after trouncing Yale in the Harvard-Yale game, we should remember how greatly Yale has affected our history. Our rivalry with Yale continues to shape us into a better college and institution, even centuries later. By 1825, Yale and Harvard were already well on each other’s radars. Yale’s Reports on the Course of Instruction in … Read more
This article is the fifth installment of an HPR series exploring President Kennedy’s legacy as we reflect on the 50th anniversary of his assassination. David Halberstam opened his seminal work on the policy debate of the Vietnam War, The Best and the Brightest, with a description of a small meeting held by President-Elect Kennedy with … Read more
This article is the fourth installment of an HPR series exploring President Kennedy’s legacy as we reflect on the 50th anniversary of his assassination. The JFK legacy is something truly amazing. From the Kennedy School of Government to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, institutions across the country bear the 35th President’s … Read more
The tactics and goals of divestment campaigns are generally well documented and understood. Generally, these campaigns seek to persuade and cajole universities into changing the way they invest their endowments so as to remove fossil fuel producing companies from their investment portfolios. Dynamic, fast growing, and media savvy, these campaigns have captured the attention of … Read more
Search “millennial” on Google and one will find endless links discussing how millennials work and what makes them tick. One has only to look to TIME magazine’s controversial May 2013 cover, titled “The ME ME ME Generation: Millennials are lazy, entitled narcissists who still live with their parents. Why they’ll save us all,” to realize … Read more
On the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address, President Obama hand-wrote a short remark on the impact of the speech. Though the significance of the president taking the time to turn to pen and paper cannot be overlooked, it is also important to consider his gentle nod at Lincoln himself. Obama has certainly drawn from … Read more
This article is the third installment of an HPR series exploring President Kennedy’s legacy as we reflect on the 50th anniversary of his assassination. JFK’s legacy is carried forward every day just down the street (that bears his name) from Harvard Yard. At the John F. Kennedy School of Government, one cannot turn around without … Read more
This op-ed was written by members of the National Campaign for Political and Civic Engagement, a consortium of over twenty colleges founded by the Institute of Politics at Harvard University. Hanna Hebert (Allegheny College), Sietse Goffard (Harvard University), Gavin Sullivan (Harvard University), Kira Kaur (Rutgers University), Catherine Benavidez (University of Texas at Austin), and Laura … Read more
This article is the second installment of an HPR series exploring President Kennedy’s legacy as we reflect on the 50th anniversary of his assassination. Friday, November 22, 1963. Like the day of Lincoln’s assassination, the day of Pearl Harbor, and more recently, 9/11, it seemed like a perfectly normal day. Then Walter Cronkite appeared on … Read more
On Wednesday, September 11, the twelfth anniversary of the Twin Tower attacks, a jihadist group known as the Islamic Emirate of Libya posted four pictures: Libya’s general congress, unnamed “embassies” and the Thunderbolt Special Forces brigade, along with a picture of a missile with the caption, “Where would you like us to put this missile?” … Read more