Harvard Must Work to Bridge the Politics-People Divide
Crimson | Peter Jones ‘25
Peter Jones ‘25 argues that if Harvard’s “label as a retreat for coastal gentry isn’t sufficient reason to engage in some image rehab, Harvard has a moral obligation to care for the health of American democracy.”
He writes that “with anti-elite sentiment on the rise” and the “worrisome gap between Congress [the elites] and the U.S. populace”… “Harvard can, by virtue of its many fingers in American politics, help fill, improving its own national image in the process.”
Jones points to geographic diversity in admissions and curriculums representative of America as a whole as two ways to start addressing the problem.
“An insular Harvard helps no one but its direct affiliates, but a Harvard whose institutions embody humility and open-mindedness has the capacity to pacify some of our country’s deepest and most destructive fault lines.”
