A Crimson Columnist's Conclusions Stephen W. Stromberg does a year-end wrap-up in his column today.

Stromberg discusses a political science class he's finishing that discusses transitions from feudalism to absolutism, and remarks, "The logic of absolutist state-building basically came down to this: put one guy in charge and generate a hierarchy of technocrats, each with his or her own specialized turf, below the leader. That’s basically what has been happening at Harvard over the last four years."

He also goes on to chastise Harvard students for complaining too much and faults the curricular review as vague and vision-less.

Quite an interesting column, actually, and more constructive than I'm making it sound.  ¶ 8:32 AM