Two things. First, these selected quotations from the voir dire of Martin Shkreli's trial for securities fraud are widely understood to be hilarious: The Court: The purpose of jury selection is to ensure fairness and impartiality in this case. If you think that you could not be fair
Still, this report shows that Harvard could learn a lot from MIT about how to run a university. —Harry Lewis, "The Report Harvard Should Have Asked For", 2013 (0) Around the time I came to Harvard, both Mass Ave schools were dealing with the fallout of embarrassing, messy
A course I used to teach -- cs50 -- has seen some on-campus news (and editorial) coverage recently in the wake of a leak that 60 students in the course were reported to the Administrative Board on suspicions of academic dishonesty. I don't have any relationship with the
Alasdair MacIntyre, The 1984 Lindley Lecture at the University of Kansas. excerpted to 1787 words. One of the central tasks of the moral philosopher is to articulate the convictions of the society in which he or she lives so that these convictions may become available for rational scrutiny. This task
attention-conservation notice: Taking poetry seriously. Wholehearted, uncynical, unapologetic Harvardiana. Today's the first time that many of Harvard's graduands will hear the little-known final verse of "Fair Harvard". So it seems as good a time as any to muse on the administration's decision