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Category Archives: Harvard
Decoding Harvard’s Economics Department
Deans, department chairs, senior faculty, and the invisible network of NBER program directors, placement advisors, and recommendation letter writers at Harvard Economics do not compete for authority by declaring a desire for power. They compete by invoking languages of causal … Continue reading
Decoding The Quarterly Journal of Economics (QJE)
Gemini says: The Quarterly Journal of Economics functions as a signaling mechanism for institutional loyalty. David Pinsof’s Alliance Theory suggests that human intellect evolved not to find objective truth, but to navigate social coalitions. Under this lens, the QJE serves … Continue reading
Decoding Harvard
Harvard University functions as the central hub for the most powerful status alliance in the world. Within the framework of Alliance Theory, Harvard does not simply provide education. It manages a massive coordination game where elite families, corporations, and governments … Continue reading
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Decoding The Harvard Law Review
Status in the legal academy relies on an alliance structure where students, professors, and elite law firms exchange prestige to maintain a closed circuit of authority. The Harvard Law Review serves as the primary node in this network. Under an … Continue reading
Prof: ‘Why I’m Leaving Harvard’
James Hankins, a professor of History at Harvard, writes: * In 2021, however, I was told informally by a member of the admissions committee that “that” (meaning admitting a white male) was “not happening this year.” In the same year … Continue reading
Why Go Republican At Harvard?
Comment: “I know some Harvard people personally, and even if right-leaning, they wouldn’t really dare speak out. Perhaps tragically or amusingly, one of the most “Republican” of them was an openly gay man who was hoping that the College Republican … Continue reading
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WP: ‘Harvard withdraws 10 acceptances for ‘offensive’ memes in private group chat’
I am glad to see a fellow Jew sticking up for free speech. Law professor Erica Goldberg blogs: According to the Harvard Crimson, Harvard has revoked the acceptances of at least ten students admitted to the Class of 2021. These … Continue reading
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Microaggressions At Harvard
Steve Sailer writes: From the New York Times: Black America and the Class Divide The economic gap within the African-American community is one of the most important factors in the rise of Black Lives Matter, led by a new generation … Continue reading
Steve Sailer: Harvard Law Professor: Majority of Men Accused of Campus Rape Are Minority
Steve Sailer writes: But in passing in a New Yorker article, Harvard Law School criminal law professor Jeannie Suk drops a bombshell: on average, male students accused of sexual assault look less like Haven Monahan than like, say, Heisman Trophy-winner … Continue reading
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