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Category Archives: Harvard
‘Legal Education and the Reproduction of Hierarchy’ (1983)
The power of the tacit in law schools hierarchies is often a matter of inheritance. Two of Stephen Turner’s high school classmates were children of law professors and they became elite law faculty. Daniel J. Meltzer and David F. Levi. … Continue reading
The Kelsen Exclusion and the Jurisdictional Claim Balkin Now Defends
At an academic conference about a decade ago, legal philosopher Duncan Kennedy, who was retiring, said that at Harvard Law, they teach the students that judges and lawyers are policy makers, and that all that rule of law stuff was … Continue reading
Omar Sultan Haque – Physician, Psychiatrist, Philosopher
Omar Sultan Haque holds an Sc.B. in neuroscience and A.B. in religious studies from Brown University, an M.T.S. from Harvard Divinity School, an S.T.M. from Yale, and an M.D. from Harvard Medical School. He completed his Ph.D. in cognition and … Continue reading
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The Tacit No-Go Zones At Each Ivy League University
Every Ivy League campus runs on unspoken rules about what can and cannot be said, and by whom, and in what tone. The formal rules matter less than the atmosphere. At all eight schools, the enforcement is decentralized: comp (club … Continue reading
The Tacit Arrangements At Harvard
Harvard’s tacit order is not captured by its official language about truth, excellence, inclusion, or service. Those are the public creeds. The real system is a prestige machine that turns inherited polish, institutional fluency, social calibration, and controlled ambition into … Continue reading
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Ten Convenient Beliefs In Harvard’s Anthropology Department
Grok says: Harvard Anthropology is the undisputed #1 department in the discipline: unmatched four-field breadth (cultural, biological/archaeological, linguistic, medical), global prestige, enormous funding pipelines (NSF, Wenner-Gren, Peabody Museum ties), and a self-image as the place where anthropology “matters most.” The … Continue reading
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Ten Convenient Beliefs In Harvard’s Sociology Department
Grok says: Harvard Sociology has enormous symbolic capital, deep ties to the Kennedy School, a mix of rigorous quantitative causal inference and high-profile cultural/qualitative work, and explicit research clusters in Inequality, Culture, Race/Ethnicity/Immigration, Comparative Sociology, Education, Health & Population, Crime … Continue reading
Ten Convenient Beliefs In The Harvard Department of English / History & Literature
Stephen Turner calls some ideas good bad theories. They do little to explain the world and much to hold a group together. A good bad theory coordinates hiring, teaching, grants, and self-image. It tells the members who belongs and what … Continue reading
Ten Convenient Beliefs For Leaders Of Harvard Now
Harvard’s administration believes its decision to fight the Trump administration’s funding freezes and regulatory demands reflects principled defense of academic freedom and institutional autonomy rather than the belated discovery that an institution which spent decades accumulating federal dependencies, building administrative … Continue reading
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The Jurisdictional Wars: Alliance Theory and the Battle for Power at Harvard
Presidents, Corporation Fellows, provosts, and senior deans at Harvard University do not compete for authority by saying they want power. They compete by invoking languages of Veritas, Excellence, Academic Freedom, Moral Clarity, Diversity and Inclusion, or responsibility for sustaining the … Continue reading
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