…but I laughed pretty hard when I saw this video of our (beloved) Editor-in-Chief, in the role of “student group debt,” getting his ass handed to him by the Student Activities Council. Apparently they do not like it when student groups find themselves in the red. Anyway, watch the video, because the SAC people spent waaaay too much time preparing [...]
When people describe campuses as “bubbles” and “ivory towers,” they aren’t kidding and they aren’t (entirely) wrong. In my coursework, for example, I very often discuss the history of history, which I consider quite important. Penn’s University Council even has a Committee on Committees. Perhaps the only profession as self-referential and introspective as academia is political punditry – so it [...]
The Alliance of Collegiate Editors interviews Mark Rudd, former member of the Weather Underground and current anti-war activist.
Penn Political Review has joined with other college political publications to form the Alliance of Collegiate Editors (ACE), hoping to generate cross-campus dialogue on political issues. Now, we are taking the opportunity to discuss remote drone strikes in contested regions in the Middle East and South Asia. Technology discussions often disappoint me. Rather than engage substantively with human nature and [...]
So, Carl Paladino said some pretty inflammatory things about homosexuality the other day. Dave Weigel has the exactly correct take on the politics of Paladino’s remarks. I have nothing to add: it’s the wrong message at the wrong time, when he should be focusing on the economy. Weigel is also right that the particularly unusual case of Paladino – the [...]
The modern conversation about the nature of science and its compatibility with other forms of human knowledge – most notably religion, but also “armchair” philosophy, literature, and the humanities more generally – is peculiarly and depressingly repetitive. Examples abound, but this one struck me. Here we have Francis Collins, interviewed by Big Think, in 2010 (via Andrew Sullivan): My study [...]
It has come to my attention that the page 217 application essay is no more. The DP has a eulogy up, which mostly remarks on the creativity the essay afforded students. Apparently the administration’s rationale goes like this: First, Penn’s use of the Common Application — which has an open-ended essay as an option — made the prompt “repetitive and [...]
Ezra Klein’s column in the Washington Post on Sunday – “Poli Sci 101” – continued a conversation that’s been going on for a long time in the blogosphere over the relative merits of journalism and political science. Klein belongs to a group of “wonky” bloggers who tend to use data and research in making their points, while disparaging the use [...]
Rebiya Kadeer, a prominent Uyghur activist in China, answers questions from various campus magazines about her life and work.
In collaboration with the Alliance of Collegiate Editors.
I’d like to talk about the arguments for and against same-sex marriage – the so-called “merits” of the case. The legal arguments surrounding Judge Vaughn Walker’s decision to strike down proposition 8 are complex and interesting. The political gambles made by Boies and Olson on the plaintiff’s side, and by Walker on the judge’s, are exciting. Nonetheless, the legal aspect [...]
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