Wednesday, October 2, 2024

Bill Ackman's Analysis of Harvard

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The indefatigable Bill Ackman has quantified Harvard in a  slide deck  done in the style of a corporate takeover analysis. I am particularl...
Monday, August 14, 2023

Arthur Augustus Johnson

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 This short bio of an interesting character appears in Harvard Magazine. Enjoy! https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2023/09/features-vita-arthur...
Saturday, July 1, 2023

The end of affirmative action

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The Crimson asked me to weigh in on the SCOTUS ruling against Harvard. My piece (" Unfinished Business ") is now up. It's Harv...
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Thursday, December 15, 2022

Video recording of my Skolem Lecture on The Birth of Binary

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 A video recording of my Skolem Lecture in Oslo on the Birth of Binary is now available here . The Birth of Binary: Leibniz and the Origins...
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Tuesday, December 13, 2022

Voter Suppression, Harvard-Style

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(This piece is jointly authored by Harry Lewis and Bill Gasarch, who is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Maryland at Colle...
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Monday, November 28, 2022

Skolem Lecture on "The Birth of Binary" – 8 December 2022

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Following publication of my edition, with Lloyd Strickland, of Leibniz's writings on binary arithmetic , I'll be giving the annual T...
Friday, November 18, 2022

Virtue signaling, at the Kennedy School and elsewhere

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The imperative to show our commitment to redress social injustices, even if it means overshooting the mark, takes Harvard to positions that ...