Harry Larson
LARSON: Speech, violence and revolution

News travels faster than ever. People used to wait for the postman, then the evening news. Now, my iPhone pushes me the latest New York […]

LARSON: Thinking big after Levin

As soon as President Levin announced that he would be stepping down, rumors began to circulate about who would take his place. The almost eulogistic […]

LARSON: For a grounded YCC

Now that John Gonzalez ’14 has won the run-off for the Yale College Council presidency, all the vestiges of election season — countless emails from […]

LARSON: Discussion, not distance

For almost 100 years of our country’s history, slavery was an institutionalized, legally sanctioned and brutal reality. We all know how it ended — over […]

LARSON: Toning down our rhetoric

A finger presses down over lips without a face, directing you to stay silent. Streets are deserted. Ominous, masked medical professionals handle syringes and a […]

LARSON: No need to divide history major

The History Department is changing, as the News reported on Monday (“History plans ‘pathways,’ ” Feb. 27). In order to halt a precipitous slide in the […]

LARSON: The price of living on campus

When I made the decision to attend Yale, I was absolutely sure I would live on campus all four years — indeed, the beautiful residential […]

LARSON: Don’t let Open Yale Courses close

Unsurprisingly, my math textbook was written by an MIT professor. More surprisingly, the lectures I watch to learn the material are taught by that same […]

LARSON: Bring back funding for community policing

When Dean Esserman was welcomed back to New Haven as the police department chief, he was hailed as a prophet of community policing, a crime-fighting […]

LARSON: Morality can’t be prescribed

What defines a liberal arts education? What must we require of those who aspire to one? These are questions that even top liberal arts colleges […]

LARSON: RIP, Blue Book

As we rush back and forth between 20 classes during the first two weeks of this semester, we will be aided by the classic, hardcopy, […]