Harry Lewis

Harvard’s ‘Kindness’ Pledge: Will It Work?

Posted 11.19.2011

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By Christopher Shea for the Wall Street Journal What could possibly be wrong with asking Harvard students to be nice to one another? This year, fre...

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Does Harvard Want Bold Thinkers or Good Little Boys and Girls?

Greg Lukianoff | Posted 11.07.2011

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Greg Lukianoff

Harvard has missed something that I fear much of our society has lost sight of: Even if by some weird and lucky coincidence we happened to be right about every belief we cherish, we nevertheless tend not to understand why we hold those values until they are challenged.

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