“Describe a time when you strongly disagreed with someone about an idea or issue. How did you communicate or engage with this person? What did you learn from this experience?” This is the most recently updated supplemental essay for applicants to Harvard College. With Harvard’s Restrictive Early Action deadline less than a month away, applicants…
Harvard preaches free speech, but fails to live up to these ideals. Two weeks ago, The Crimson reported that Harvard Medical School administrators nixed a potential speaker for their 2024 Class Day due to concerns over her pro-Palestine posts on social media. In their justification, the Medical School cited a desire to avoid the perception…
For the first time in years, Harvard didn’t come dead last in the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression free speech rankings. But experts say the rankings have never told the full story. Read more in The Harvard Crimson…
In April of 2025, the Trump administration sent a letter to Harvard’s administration making a series of demands, including that they cancel diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs and hire an auditor to evaluate ideological diversity among faculty. After Harvard publicly refused to comply, the Trump administration froze over $2.2 billion in grants and $60…
Harvard’s chief Community and Campus Life officer Sherri A. Charleston, who led the University’s diversity office before it was renamed in April, said at a Memorial Church service on Thursday that her overhauled office was committed to elevating pluralism and going beyond “diversity in numbers.” Read more in the Crimson…
More than 500 students and prospective Harvard admits packed Science Center Hall B to watch the Harvard College Democrats and the Harvard Republican Club exchange blows over economics, immigration, and higher education during this year’s annual Visitas debate on Sunday night. Read more in The Harvard Crimson…
On Monday, April 21st, members of Harvard College and the Harvard Center for Jewish Studies gathered in the historic Plimpton Room of the Barker Center to listen to a special guest lecture by Professor Iris Rachimimov, a specialist in Israeli LGBTQ+ history at Tel Aviv University, about the history of the transgender movement in Israel….
Exactly eleven weeks after the inauguration of President Trump, Intellectual Vitality and the Institute of Politics’ Conservative Coalition partnered to bring Robert Doar – president of famed conservative think tank American Enterprise Institute – to Harvard for a conversation about the state of civil discourse in the country. Doar was joined by the Learned Hand…
Social media exerts a powerful influence on college campuses. Has the technology helped broker new connections across ideological difference? Or has it simply siphoned students into conversations with those who share their views? Read more in The Harvard Gazette…
“Society has never been more egalitarian—in theory. Prejudice is taboo, and diversity is strongly valued. At the same time, social and economic inequality have exploded.In We Have Never Been Woke, Musa al-Gharbi argues that these trends are closely related, and tied to the rise of a new elite—the symbolic capitalists.” (via Princeton Press) On the…
