Category: The Harvard Crimson

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Embrace Intellectual Vitality, Don’t Dismiss It

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Harvard has a discourse problem. Just look at last year’s senior survey, which reported that only 36 percent of students felt comfortable expressing opposing views on controversial topics in courses. There’s no quick way to create a culture where students feel comfortable engaging in open, honest dialogue. But Harvard’s new intellectual vitality initiative is a good start….

About Those Free Speech Rankings

A few weeks after we started working on this column, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression released their yearly college free speech rankings, placing Harvard dead last out of 248 universities. Read more on The Harvard Crimson…

Does Harvard Have an Academic Freedom Problem?

In the face of what many characterize as an academic freedom issue at Harvard, professors and students have created their own spaces for exchanging potentially controversial ideas. Nonetheless, they disagree on the stakes. Read more in The Harvard Crimson…