The Harvard CrimsonOpinion

Applicants: Improving Harvard’s Speech Culture is Worth the Hassle

So, to any prospective applicants: don’t hesitate to apply because you think your voice will be silenced. Rather, apply ...
The New Yorker

Pan-African Dreams, Post-Colonial Realities

Two new books, on Kwame Nkrumah’s promise and Idi Amin’s tyranny, capture the soaring hopes and bitter aftermath of Africa’s ...
Smithsonian Magazine

This 1837 Harvard Speech by Ralph Waldo Emerson Inspired a Generation of American Writers to Declare Their Independence From ‘the Courtly Muses of Europe’

On Thursday, August 31, 1837, shortly after noon, 215 members of Harvard University’s prestigious Phi Beta Kappa Society ...