Harvard has rewritten the final line of a traditional song performed at its biggest ceremonies. Like some of its art and architecture, the song hearkens back to Harvard's beginnings in Puritan Boston almost 400 years ago. That's arguably not the note to sound if you're hoping to project 21st-century values like openness, diversity and cosmopolitanism.
Hoover Institution fellow Russ Roberts talks about how Friedrich Hayek wrote and thought in the context of the social sciences and whether his insights about knowledge and ignorance point to understandings shared by the Jewish tradition.
My wife and I were catching up on recorded episodes of Jeopardy last night and were stunned by what happened--both how one contestant bet and by Alex Trebek's comment about his bet.
Stephen Kotkin’s Stalin is all paradox. He is pockmarked and physically unimpressive, yet charismatic; a gambler, but cautious; undeterred by the prospect of mass bloodshed, but with no interest in personal participation.
