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01.24.25
Learning the Wrong Lessons at Harvard
Last fall, Harvard University once again found itself in the crosshairs of the U.S. Congress in a spat that left both institutions compromising American values and competitiveness. On October 18, the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist...
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02.16.19
Roderick MacFarquhar: A Remembrance
When Roderick MacFarquhar passed away on February 10, 2019, I was left with a deep regret: that our friendship had been too short.“He can be very intimidating. Don’t be put off by it; it’s just a mannerism,” Nancy Hearst, the librarian at Harvard’s...
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Professor Michael Puett uses Chinese philosophy as a way to give undergraduates concrete, counter-intuitive, and even revolutionary ideas, which teach them how to live a better life, putting ancient Chinese thought in the context of contemporary...
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