Four Harvard University students won the annual Econometrics World Championship (also known as the Econometric Game) in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The annual event is organized by the University of Amsterdam and the VSAE (Association of…
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Four Harvard University students won the annual Econometrics World Championship (also known as the Econometric Game) in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The annual event is organized by the University of Amsterdam and the VSAE (Association of…
Some intriguing results: More than half of millennials recently surveyed by the Harvard Institute of Politics reject both capitalism and socialism, according to the poll’s results. Perhaps surprisingly, socialism is even less popular than capitalism,…
Typically, Harvard campus police ask protesters to leave and could escort them out. But, in a recent confrontation between yelling protesters and an invited speaker, they did nothing. Photo by Little Koshka
Universities are now a battleground over free speech: Tensions are rising at Harvard Law School (HLS) after a confrontation between student activist group Reclaim Harvard Law (RHL) and students who are concerned about freedom of…
Summers, a professor at Harvard, makes some great points in his piece in the Washington Post. Photo by :::mediActivista:::
The latest from the Washington Examiner’s Ashe Schow: But there are many, perhaps even a silent majority, that believe safe spaces, trigger warnings and labeling microaggressions keep students from growing up. Enter Rachel Huebner, a…
When academics point out the problems with polls, they might wind up trying to regulate them. “Because one of the things I want to say about public opinion polls is that they are the child…
Now that the media have helped establish Trump as the runaway frontrunner, these reporters and news organizations are starting to have buyer’s remorse, comparing him to Hitler, Kim Jung Il, and Stalin. Harvard professor Danielle Allen…
A female columnist at the Harvard University paper, Harvard Crimson, does not like the ‘friend zone.‘ The friend zone, for people unfamiliar with the term, is when one person is romantically interested in another person,…
That is a bit racist, isn’t it? Or at least exclusionary to Asian medical students.