Haidt explains “The story of Babel is the best metaphor I have found for what happened to America in the 2010s, and for the fractured country we now inhabit. Something went terribly wrong, very suddenly. We are disoriented, unable to speak the same language or recognize the same truth.”

New York Times

In a powerful speech delivered at the 2021 Pen America Gala and adapted in a NYT essay, Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. argues that “whenever we treat identify as something to be fenced off from those of another identity, we sell short the human imagination.”

Spectator and WSJ

Professor emirata Ruth Wisse recounts Harvard's increasing capitulation to fear and cowardice in the face of anti-intellectual assailants since her 1993 arrival. In a follow-up piece, Wisse argues that the war in Afghanistan was lost in the halls of Harvard.

Invisible Men- Part I Part II

On their podcast, Ian Rowe and Nique Fajors interview Harvard professor Roland Fryer on his quest to study some of the most contentious problems in today’s society through an economic lens. 

HBSAAA

In February 2021, the Harvard Business School African American Alumni Association presented “Moving from Persecution to Prosperity: Demystifying Black Excellence.” An excellent talk covering everything from equity to reparations.

Heterodox Academy

“Aristotle often evaluated a thing with respect to its ‘telos’ – its purpose, end, or goal. The telos of a knife is to cut. The telos of a physician is health or healing. What is the telos of university?”