HARVARD SQUARE COMMENTARY
A Political, Social, Literary Journal
Politics
Ernest Cassara
We would be derelict in our duty were we not to comment on the departure of Dr. Lawrence Summers from the presidency of the institution from which this website derives its name...
• Adventures with the Phone Company
• Unintended Consequences
• Arab vs. Israeli Newspapers
• A letter writer makes a puzzling point
• Value of offensive free speech
• Derbyshire's promise
• Trust and obey
• Self-loathing
• How dumb can people get?
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Everything Else
Tom Absher
As a boy I did some sleepwalking one summer at camp...
• An emergency birth
• A picture and the worth of three words
Thoughts of Voltaire, B.Franklin, C.Joseph, H.F.Amiel, and M.Twain
An endearing feature of English culture is that it's able to treat sexuality without leering...
Neil Turner
No, the number of minutes shown above is no typo. This film is over six and a half hours long. But...
Comments upon 24, The O'Reilly Factor, Law and Order, The Vast Wasteland, and Numb3rs
Volume II March 6, 2006 Number 7
Editor's Panel
This week I call your attention to Ernest Cassara's thoughts about Larry Summers and Harvard. I can't disagree with anything Ernest says and yet I suspect I'm more sympathetic to Mr. Summer's than he is...
Last week a friend e-mailed me a quiz about American government which has been given to a large number of high school students and also to an array of older Americans...
The news media fail to defend the right of small nations to build a nuclear defense against the country which has already used two atomic weapons...
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