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...message from this panel of non-scholars fit perfectly with bi-coastal elite fashion: Our food should be organic, local, and slow. These ideas have no scholarly pedigree. The assertion that food should be grown without synthetic nitrogen fertilizer (“organically”) can be traced back nearly a century to an Austrian mystic named Rudolf Steiner who also believed in cosmic rhythms, human reincarnation, and the lost city of Atlantis. The idea of eating locally comes from the founder of a community-supported kitchen in Berkeley, California. The idea of slow food was first popularized...
...splendid new graduating class of 2009. When you leave the university, be wary of seductive ideas not sufficiently vetted by academic scholarship. When endorsement by academic specialists is missing, there are usually good reasons. Also, think globally, not just locally, before you embrace a fashionable new choice. The non-academic purveyors of fashion seldom do. Robert Paarlberg is Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College and a Visiting Professor of Government at Harvard University. He is the author of “Starved for Science: How Biotechnology is Being Kept Out of Africa...
...great defender, here?” More often than not, I’ve been frustrated with Harvard and, to be honest, there have been occasions when I’ve questioned my decision to come here. Harvard’s administrative structure is notoriously non-intuitive, and the doors to University Hall and the Holyoke Center seem to be revolving constantly as deans come and go. I’ve felt backed into corners by bureaucratic academic departments, apathetic professors, fierce competition for limited opportunities—and occasionally all three at the same time...
...Harvard theater gets very little non-financial support from the University, which is great in the sense that Harvard students get to take on jobs like directing and producing that at other universities would be afterthoughts for professionals. It would be easier, yes, but less enriching if Harvard worked that way. If you love it, if you’re focused and energetic and talented and tireless, then there is no better feeling than the one you get just before the lights come up on opening night. But I wasn’t any of those things, which I realized...
...However, Cambridge had played a leading role in the nuclear freeze movement even before the referendum—it was one of the first cities in the country to support a moratorium on nuclear weapons production through a non-binding referendum...