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Harvard Wants To Talk About Israel-Palestine. Can It Succeed?
After over a year, the University still struggles with fostering dialogue on Israel-Palestine. Where does the problem lie?
Harvard Gets More Rhodes Scholars Than Any Other School. Why Do Some of Its Houses Get So Few?
Last year, if Leverett House had been its own university, it would have ranked second in total recipients of the Rhodes Scholarship, just above Yale. Meanwhile, houses like Currier, Winthrop, and Kirkland have only seen one or two U.S. Rhodes Scholars in the last decade.
Is the Next JD Vance Sitting in Your Philosophy Seminar?
Ask them, and they might insist that theirs is not so much a political project as is a philosophical one. But this same insistence on deep questions has also informed a rising conservative political movement — the so-called “New Right” — which eschews traditional Republican party politics in favor of more philosophical, and often more radical, views.
Are Whales Trying to Tell Us Something?
Project CETI, an interdisciplinary initiative consisting of over 50 scientists, is working to uncover — and eventually decode — patterns in whale “speech.”