I agree - very weak

foster debate? when everyone thinks alike? doesn´t happen...

This bedwetting little twit, carrying his incoherent sophistry to dizzying new heights, undoubtedly has the full approval of the Harvard faculty.

With this mindset, I as a long-married straight person should not visit San Fracisco. Never mind, I don´t anyway.

Holy smokes, Samuels is apparently well-suited for politics or punditry -- real poster-boy material for the victory of feelings over reason (which still seems to dominate the Left, though that disorder is rampant now on both sides).

What can you expect for $54,000 a year?! /s

The main point we were making though is that there’s a certain dissonance or a certain hypocrisy,almost, in coming to a school and utilizing its educational resources and then turning around a few years later and criticizing the school in sort of a blanket way.”

Sounds like Harvard´s goal is to educate brain dead zombies who can only toe the party line.

so much for "Veritas"

Oh yes. The Harvard Crimson is all for free speech provided they agree with it and it fits their agenda.

This guy is as idiotic as Larry summers who said that women did not succeed in their professions because of their innate sex differences! And this from a president at Harvard which has the worst record in tenured women professors!

What company, bank, corporation, etc. would now hire a Harvard graduate knowing that grad has been taught that the company is inherently evil? It would seem that hiring a Harvard graduate for your business would be inviting the fox into the henhouse. They will try to destroy it from within.

Is anyone out there actually surprised Harvard, of all places, actually enrolls little Marxist-Leninist-Bolsheviks?

And whatever became of Professor Theodore John "Ted" Kaczynski, Class of 1962?

Harvard has certainly gone downhill since the Puritans established it. Indeed education, which was a hallmark of American Puritanism, has devolved. From "New England´s First Fruits (1643):

"After God had carried us safe to New England, and we had builded our houses, provided necessaries for our livelihood, reared convenient places for God´s worship, and settled the civil government, one of the next things we longed for and looked after was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity."

"Cotton Mather called that act ´the best thing that ever New England thought upon......´ - From "Worldly Saints: The Puritans As They Really Were" by Leland Ryken

Their modern day genius cluster has failed us miserably over the past ten years. If they´ve turned into nothing but a legacy /diversity/groupthink clearing house they´re losing their place in American society, governance, and commercial enterprise anyway.

Anyone doubt the kids from State U wouldn´t have made such a muddle of things?

Most amusing! The Ivy League turns into the Kudzu Klowns.

Not to worry, Harvard...as most ´conservatives´ don´t choose their schools by the ´who pays for transgender sex change surgery´ criteria...your halls are safe for your intellectually liberal bigotry.

Swish on! Your overpriced credentials don´t mean **** in the new millennium.

Another college kid trying to appear wise by overcomplicating a simple issue.
I hope Mummy can get her tuition back.

IOW, no thinking for oneself allowed

The fundamental error is the notion that children have something useful to say about education, society, world affairs, war and peace etc. - and that the reason they go to school and university is to express their opinions and instruct grownups how to think and behave. This is a very odd idea that became popular in the Sixties, with consequences that might have been predicted.

Students are supposed to be studying. They are not old enough, do have have experience enough, have not lived long enough to opine on serious matters with any prospect of benefit to themselves or others. Occasional exceptions merely prove the rule. It is understood that teenagers think they know everything and have all the answers - but the function of education until very recent times was to disabuse them of this conceit. Unfortunately, far from being disabused, they are today often encouraged to believe that their personal opinions are important and worth listening to by others.

They must have to work awfully hard to find fools like this. Did he get to be editor the same way Zippy did?

Amen, #17!

#6, I notices the same quote. — "there’s a certain dissonance or a certain hypocrisy,almost, in coming to a school and utilizing its educational resources and then turning around a few years later and criticizing the school in sort of a blanket way"

I´ll bet $10k dollars this closed minded genius had no problem with Sandra Fluke attending a Catholic college, yet demanding birth control pills,,which are contrary to the Catholic faith.

This left-wing student´s statement presupposes that conservative applicants to Harvard (or any of the Ivy League school) are not sifted out in the admissions process. I had to misrepresent myself as a collectivist to gain entry to a top-tier school. Even then, I lost points (& had to wait a year) for having worked and saved my tuition money in the private sector before applying. The admissions officer´s comments that I was on a "vocational" track.

There is a reason that the big name schools have student populations that are uniformly socialist in thinking -- the admissions office only allows a few token conservatives entry to their staked-out domains.

In the meantime Harvard sits on billions of dollars in its endowment funds, and refuses to redistribute it to the poor, the naked, and the hungry. Time to pony up.

A company I used to work for was founded by a Harvard scientist. But he wasn´t good at business, and was replaced by a graduate of a state university. And in my life experiences, the smartest people I´ve known have usually been graduates of state universities.

to repeat a popular phrase: "another ivy league a-hole"

Excellent, excellent post, #17 (as usual).

And the president of the Crimson does not plan to leverage Harvard in a political way? Ha ha ha!