This is the meatiest and most provocative article I have read in the Salient. As a distant alum I have no way to verify its claims, but it rings true, and I hope it gains sufficient circulation on campus to generate discussion leading to effective remedial action.
Characterizing a Crimson column by Matthew Tobin as asserting that students "complain that Economics professors do not state their left-wing political opinions frequently enough in class" doesn't give an accurate picture of the column.
"It should disturb us that a concentrator can graduate without engaging seriously with some of the most influential economic theorists ever — like Friedrich Hayek and Karl Marx."
Of course Marx was a Marxist, but Hayek was a libertarian economist who won the Nobel Prize in Economics.
Harvard is horrifying
This is the meatiest and most provocative article I have read in the Salient. As a distant alum I have no way to verify its claims, but it rings true, and I hope it gains sufficient circulation on campus to generate discussion leading to effective remedial action.
Characterizing a Crimson column by Matthew Tobin as asserting that students "complain that Economics professors do not state their left-wing political opinions frequently enough in class" doesn't give an accurate picture of the column.
Tobin wrote:
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2026/3/23/tobin-harvard-economics/
"It should disturb us that a concentrator can graduate without engaging seriously with some of the most influential economic theorists ever — like Friedrich Hayek and Karl Marx."
Of course Marx was a Marxist, but Hayek was a libertarian economist who won the Nobel Prize in Economics.