Harvard Archives - Intervention

Plagiarism is Not a Sin: Claudine Gay’s Failure was Intellectual, Not Moral

Posted By: adminon: January 12, 2024In: World From AfricaTags: Harvard, MIT, Neri Oxman, Plagiarism, Prof Claudine Gay, University of PennsylvaniaNo CommentsViews:

The orthodoxy in academia is capital NO to plagiarism. But, in the essay below, Kathleen Stock who is introduced as a columnist for UnHerd; author of Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for... Read more

Henry Kissinger Dies @ 100

Posted By: adminon: November 30, 2023In: LifeworldTags: 'Liberal World Order', Geopolitics, Harvard, Joseph Nye, President Xi Jinping, Princeton, US foreign policy, USSR, ‘Old friend’No CommentsViews:

The world has lost one of the most influential theorist and practitioner of foreign policy in the 20th and 21st century. He is Dr Henry Kissinger, a former American Secretary of State. Befor... Read more

Novel Samples of Stylising Nigeria’s 63rd Independence Anniversary

Posted By: adminon: October 02, 2023In: SpectacleTags: Cameroon, Cuba, Ghana, Green-White-Green, Harvard, New York, Nigerian flag, Nigerianity, Senegal, The Nigerian genius, Uganda, University of IbadanNo CommentsViews:

The 63rd Independence anniversary of Nigeria has come and gone but not the memories of those who stylised the anniversary with imaginative Green-White-Green designs. From New York city comes... Read more

Oxford University Heading for a Decade Long, Uninterrupted No. 1 in THE Global Ranking

Posted By: adminon: September 30, 2023In: Policy & GovernanceTags: California, Chicago, Egypt, Epistemological hegemony, Harvard, MIT, NIGERIA, Oxford, SOUTH AFRICA, Stanford, THE, UCLNo CommentsViews:

UK’s Oxford University is heading for a decade long, uninterrupted number One position on The Higher Education (THE) global ranking. It has been in that position for the eight year running w... Read more

The Women Are, Indeed, Coming

Posted By: adminon: March 16, 2023In: SpectacleTags: Cambridge, Colombia, Harvard, LSE, Manchester, MIT, NYU, St AndrewsNo CommentsViews:

Intervention is updating its watch on the phenomenal control of some of the most strategic universities in the world today by women. It is a paradoxical rise for women to provide the leaders... Read more

General Colin Powel’s Death Brings Back Imaging of Black Heroism in the United States

Posted By: adminon: October 19, 2021In: LifeworldTags: Clive Gabay, Condoleezza Rice, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Harvard, Neocon, Saddam Hussein, WhitenessNo CommentsViews:

An informed commentator told Intervention that the death of General Colin Powel from Covid-19 is a very sad news. “He was a decent man but was misled by George Bush and his Neocon cabinet me... Read more

The Strategic Salience of Prof Gabriel Egbe’s Language Game

Posted By: adminon: September 16, 2021In: BookspaceTags: 'Ninglish', Antonio Gramsci, Englishes, Ferdinand de Saussure, Harvard, Jacques Derrida, John Austin, NUC, Prof Adigun Agbaje, Veritas UniversityNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja It is since 1962 that Oxford University’s John Austin delivered his “How to Do Things With Words” but, till today, the idea that it is language rather than reason or nature t... Read more

Racial Controversy Trail Prince Harry, Obama’s Daughter’s Love Lives

Posted By: adminon: November 27, 2017In: Policy & GovernanceTags: Harvard, Identity, PPostmodernism, raceNo CommentsViews:

They might appear on the surface to be about matters of the heart or the proclivity of rich boys and girls but, in truth, they are about the complexity of identity in the world to come and h... Read more