HARVARD SQUARE COMMENTARY
A Political, Social, Literary Journal
Politics
Jerome Richard
In February of this year a scheduled execution in California was postponed because no medical professional would agree to administer a lethal injection...
Sherwood Ross
In a recent speech to the National Press Club, the president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors accused Washington of...
Sherwood Ross
The Pentagon is now the dead center of an open-ended martial enterprise that no longer pretends to be defense,” is the conclusion of...
Lawrence Velvel
On Thursday morning, in The Wall Street Journal online, Peggy Noonan (of all people) favorably discussed the possibility of a third party...
• Devil's Day
• Knowing
• A Rising Tide
• Crossing Lines
• Decider to Distracter
Everything Else
John Turner
Some of the tourist guides say that with the building of the bridge connecting it to the mainland the Isle of Skye has lost much of its mystery and remoteness. But...
Thoughts upon aging and diet
Over the past six months, your husband, Mr. George Bates, has been causing quite a commotion in our store...
This site features "The Evolution of Dance" - an entertaining six minute video by comedian Jud Laipply.
Neil Turner
A woman residing in the Golan Heights wishes to marry a Syrian. This would seem only a matter of concern to friends and family, but this is the Middle East...
Volume II June 12, 2006 Number 21
Editor's Panel
John Turner
The Harvard Square Commentary is a little sparse this week, due to editorial sloth...
John Turner
I start with this epigraph not because I'm going to write about Samuel Johnson, much as I find him fascinating, but because it makes points about labeling that are pertinent to our own time...
• Re: A World Without Water
• Re: In Scotland - St. Andrews
Ernest Cassara
Founding Editor
John Turner
Mananging Editor
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