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Has Health Reform Failed?

The question is not intended substantively.  The bill that is being debated by the Senate is an ugly mess from the perspective of any...

Larry Summers' Endowment

The Boston Globe has a must-read article out on Larry Summer's role in Harvard's endowment collapse. I like the lede: It happened at least once...

Wall Street, Rhodes Scholars, and the Soul of the University

Last Saturday the 2010 Rhodes scholars were announced and a full five Harvard students were among them (along with two Yale students and one...

New Online Only Articles

We have a new batch of web exclusive articles from the HPR: a review of books from Cass Sunstein and Tyler Cowen, a search...

This is basically another Munich situation right here.

Iran has backed down from a nuclear deal that would have significantly eased American tension with them. The deal was to send Iranian low-enriched...

What's in a Peace Prize

The prizefare theory, as enunciated by David Frum, says pacifist manipulation: That Nobel was not a gesture of Obama-worship by left-leaning Norwegians. It was the...

Barack Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize

I wasn't aware they graded on effort.

Strategy and Lord of the Rings

It's a rainy afternoon, and so I'm watching The Two Towers, the second film in the Lord of the Rings series (Ed: I hated...

Georgian Reflections

The EU has faulted both sides in the 2008 Russia-Georgia conflict for violations of international law.  Russia, unsurprisingly, broke international law by its invasion...

Worrying News

The U.S. government is probing the death of Bill Sparkman, a census worker in rural Kentucky. He was found hanged in the woods with...