Newstalk Podcast
1) Harvard Feels Blue After Trump Win
Harvard students awoke to a somber campus following Donald Trump’s reelection to the presidency early Wednesday morning. “My heart dropped a little bit,” one student said.Some Harvard professors cance...Show More
2) Harvard's Run-Up to the Election
When you think about election organizing at Harvard, a few words might come to mind. Privilege. Access. Money. The Harvard College Democrats are backed by a federally recognized PAC. Student leaders a...Show More
3) Harvard IOP Student Leader Resigns, Citing ‘Palestinian Exception to Free Speech’
As we neared the one-year anniversary of October 7 earlier this month, the Harvard Institute of Politics — the largest student organization on Harvard’s campus and its flagship platform for political ...Show More
Harvard IOP Student Leader Resigns, Citing ‘Palestinian Exception to Free Speech’
50:02 | Oct 12th, 2024
4) Is Harvard Doing Discourse Wrong?
If you've been a student at Harvard at any point over the past three years, there’s one thing you’ve probably heard over and over again: intellectual vitality. You’ll see it in emails, in videos, from...Show More
5) Infighting and Pressure From Above: Inside Harvard’s Legacy of Slavery Initiative
In 2022, Harvard earmarked $100 Million dollars for an initiative focused on making amends for Harvard’s ties to slavery. Now, that same initiative has faced infighting, a series of resignations, and ...Show More
Infighting and Pressure From Above: Inside Harvard’s Legacy of Slavery Initiative
20:18 | Sep 24th, 2024
6) Behind Harvard's Post-Affirmative Action Demographics Numbers
Harvard released its admissions demographic data for the Class of 2028 last week. This year more so than many years past, those numbers were a big deal.Few things at Harvard are as tightly kept a secr...Show More
7) Garber's Path to the Harvard Presidency
It’s Harvard’s second week back in class and campus tensions are already back in the headlines.Two Harvard graduate students charged with assault and battery during a pro-Palestine protest last May fa...Show More
8) BREAKING: ALAN GARBER ’76 TO SERVE AS HARVARD’S 31ST PRESIDENT UNTIL JUNE 2027
Alan M. Garber ’76, Harvard’s longtime provost who suddenly became the interim leader as he sought to steer the University through its worst leadership crisis in decades, was officially confirmed as t...Show More
BREAKING: ALAN GARBER ’76 TO SERVE AS HARVARD’S 31ST PRESIDENT UNTIL JUNE 2027
01:00 | Aug 2nd, 2024
9) Pro-Palestine Student Voices Inside the Harvard Yard Encampment
For than 100 hours and counting, dozens of Pro-Palestine students and protesters have camped overnight in Harvard Yard, calling on the university to divest from Israel‘s war in Gaza. The encampment ha...Show More
10) Amid Turmoil, Harvard Faculty Demand Greater Say
As skepticism of Harvard's governance mounts amid a year of turmoil, a group of prominent Harvard professors is seeking to revive a body that hasn’t existed at Harvard in living memory: a University-w...Show More