The act of scrutinizing our scrutiny becomes especially salient as we grapple with the extent to which cover-ups are an entrenched component of the systemic phenomena we loathe yet in which we may one day be complicit.
The internet can be a place for productive debate, but its fixation on culture-war debates about M&Ms proved to be more diversion than substance and distracted from deeper troubles.
It is imperative, then, that societies look beyond the shrewd rhetoric and justifications employed by genocide’s orchestrators to truly confront the facts of mass murder, no matter how difficult or emotionally burdensome they may be.
So whenever I think about the idea of me being at risk, I also think about the people that I fight for and the risks that they have the courage to take on every day.
Many wealthy students feel the need to seem less wealthy, especially when in financially diverse environments — but Canada Goose continues to saturate Harvard’s winter closet. How do we explain this discrepancy?
It is clear that the Freedom Trail sweeps non-White, non-male, non-affluent areas under the rug — ignoring areas like Beacon Hill that house much of the city’s Black and women’s historical landmarks.
As students, we’ve seen “Veritas” crest everything we do. Meaning “truth” in Latin, the word takes its place within the Harvard laurel, letters scattered...
Through Cover-Up, we hope to provide a space for the conversations that those in power try to avoid and challenge the narratives we believe and perpetuate about government, business, society, and ourselves.
There are, clearly, stark differences between the lives lived on each side of the Harvard gates, and there is much more work that needs to be done to help our neighbors without homes. What can be found on both sides, however, is love, hope, and faith; faith that a better world is possible for all of us.
My high school English teacher once told me something I didn’t understand until last year, after living through the unifying challenges to well-being posed by pandemic life: “Wherever you go, there you are.”
