As sports brands seek to diversify their reach and deepen fan loyalty, the Swift-Kelce effect underscores the strategic value of embracing broader cultural affiliations. Future marketing efforts may ...

On the evening of Jan. 15, 26 undergrads gathered for dinner in a common room at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to debate the fairness of college admissions post-affirmative action.

Zohran Mamdani’s inauguration speech on Jan. 1 became instantly famous for his promise to prove the “warmth of collectivism.” Yet Americans should pay just as much attention to another deeply ...

W hile for much of the country’s early history, many U.S. colleges and universities required students to “conform” to political and religious beliefs, since the end of in loco parentis in the 1960s, ...

Respect is one of those concepts most people claim to value, yet struggle to practice—especially in today’s climate of polarization. Public debate has grown sharper, faster, and more transactional.

Two friends on different sides of the political spectrum launched The Lemur in fall 2024, an online publication that bills itself as “Duke’s Big Ideas Magazine.” It offers students a place to write ...

Universities were once celebrated as places where ideas could be challenged, debated, and refined. Classrooms were meant to be arenas for civil discourse—spaces where disagreement was not only ...

In the 2024 presidential debate between former President Joe Biden and President Donald Trump, it became clear that political discourse in America had fully merged with internet culture. Within ...

Margot I. Cerbone ’28, a Crimson Editorial editor, lives in Mather House. Harvard students don’t know how to talk to each other. Countless surveys, speeches, and reports all come to the same ...

Abagail Hayward doesn’t talk about politics with certain friends. It’s not because she’s unable to share her beliefs or respect other ideologies. She just doesn’t want to lose friends because of the ...