Harvard Political Blogs: Crazy Informative, With a Touch of Anti-Semitism
Harvard easily outdoes all the other Ivies in the depth and variety of her political blogs. There’s really no contest — these kids went to Harvard for a reason: to blog politics like there’s no party tomorrow (and there’s not). Let’s take a look at a few.
Bikini Politics, which boasts “the body-politic will never be the same,” is run by Harvard grad student Paloma Zepeda. It’s not so much a women’s issues blog as a news blog in the inflection of women’s issues. We all know what that means.
The Harvard International Review covers such topics as the “history of suffering in Poland,” while Immigration Orange covers such topics as recently embattled migrant Pedro Zapeta. I have no clue what’s going on at Team Zebra (“We spent nine days last October trying to bring two zebras to Harvard Yard. This somehow justifies our existence.”), but it seems to be unfortunately defunct at this point anyway.
We’ve written on the inimitable Gadfly before (sample post:”Semi-circle? It’s those damned Muslims”). Cambridge Commons also seems to be kind of important (sample post: “Let’s Give Ben AffleckMore Credit”).
Dem Apples, the official blog of the Harvard College Democrats, is informative and well-updated (sample post: “Andy Card: the Man, the Myth, the Legend”). Maybe even too well-updated — the last post on the front page dates from October 29!
But let’s hope for the sake of the Harvard College Republicans that RedIvy is not their official blog (sample post: “Why I F-ing Hate Communists (and why you should, too)”). Other posts sing the praises of Ann Coulter and Sean Hannity. But this one (“Israel to World: ‘We Support Genocide’) by Frances Martel is my favorite. Criticizing Israel for refusing to take in Darfugees (so far, so good), Martel channels the cliff-notes to the The Merchant of Venice and writes:
No one should deny another the help they begged on their knees for not even a century ago. No one should deny life and safety to anyone else when they themselves live only through the magnanimity of another. But I guess the result is to be expected when one lives through “eye for an eye” rather than “turn the other cheek”.
What a “magnanimous” post. Way to show those Pharisees the light of the Lord. You’re a real Mensch, Frances.
