Tommy Barone
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Studying (il)liberalism @Harvard and soon @UniofOxford | Past: leading opinion coverage @TheCrimson, reporting @ABCPolitics
Joined May 2019
@KyivIndependent Totally pro strong US leadership on Ukraine but, as someone who does polling, i just want to flag that this is the kind of nuanced policy option we tend to avoid polling on because people don't usually have the info to give meaningful or informed responses.
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🧵🧵🧵This morning's special Editorial section in @thecrimson has every opinion you need to read on Claudine Gay's resignation. Read on to see what we have on offer >>>. (1/?).
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@kermiesippymilk My parents are 10 yrs apart and, genuinely, soulmates! When they met, an uninformed outside observer probably could've said the same about them! Let consenting adults find love and meaning how they may.
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@bocxtop I feel like it should be obvious that capitalism only incentives innovation in the interest of capital-holders so its public welfare benefits are incidental.
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@BillAckman @brooksbanderson @Harvard Hi Bill, appreciate you sharing our work. Still, this piece is ~dissenting~ from our staff editorial, titled "President Gay Plagiarized, but She Should Stay. For Now.".
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I've spent months thinking about the approach of the pro-Palestine movement at Harvard. I've finally written about it. Harvard’s Pro-Palestine Protesters Have to Stop Weakening Their Cause.
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@jflier @ijbailey @boazbaraktcs Student Kyla N. Golding mourns the end of Gay's presidency and what it means to Black women everywhere. "At the mountaintop, the world robs the Black woman of her breath such that the only option is to let the suffocation kill her or to let it kill her dreams.".
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Claudine Gay resigned yesterday. @thecrimson's Editorial team turned around NINE pieces in the 18 hours that followed. Read the staff editorial on our home page and the eight op-eds — from students, profs, and admins all across the map — here:
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@jflier @ijbailey @boazbaraktcs Jewish student Samuel P.N. Libenson proclaims that "Gay’s Resignation Is Not a Win Against Antisemitism," warning that it does Jewish people "no service to celebrate the impact that money and influence appear to have achieved in this case.".
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@jflier @ijbailey @boazbaraktcs Despite differences with Gay, Pro-Palestinian organizer @guille_hava calls out the McCarthyism of the attack against her. "The fact that such sordid pressure still succeeded marks the nadir of one of our University’s most shameful chapters.".
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@WSJ Getting a 1550 says very, very little about you as an applicant, and i am very tired of publications acting like people with scores that are good should auto get in! Harvard gets literally tens of thousands of SAT scores like this each year, and they can't and shouldn't take all.
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Absolutely thrilled to announce that the Society of Professional Journalists has recognized something I already knew: Our team at @thecrimson Editorial Board is the best in the nation.
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@jflier @ijbailey @boazbaraktcs @guille_hava Last, @kelishawill writes a thank-you to Gay, from one dreamer to another. "And so, to the dreamer, President of Harvard University, Dr. Claudine Gay, born to Claudette and Sony Gay Sr., I thank you for what you’ve done. Thank you for what you’ve meant to Black women everywhere.".
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@jflier @ijbailey @boazbaraktcs @guille_hava @kelishawill I'm really, really tired right now, but I cannot even begin to put to words how thankful I am for our team. People, we didn't even receive most of these drafts until 8 PM yesterday!!!.
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@jflier @ijbailey @boazbaraktcs @guille_hava @kelishawill This is a historic moment, and @thecrimson — my team on Editorial, our incredible news reporters, our designers, and more — unequivocally met it. News broke the story that Gay would resign, and now Editorial is the first to shape the discourse about it.
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In our staff editorial, we diagnose what went wrong and suggest where it means we must go from here. "Claudine Gay’s short and troubled tenure lays bare the cracks in Harvard’s present foundation. Political opportunists exploited them. Now, we must fix them.".
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In my first for 538 (!!!), I look under the hood to explain why folks should hold their fire on some of these post-debate polling takes. Give it a read, if nothing else, for these pretty pretty heat-mapped charts!.
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From my second appearance on @11thHour: TikTok's a problem, but I think it's far from unique.
The possibility TikTok could be banned in U.S. has young people up in arms. @tbarone03 says, "it's a little hard to listen to people rattle on about TikTok when there is this fundamental crisis in American childhood."
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@mongerofshit @RevDocBobSac But when they debuted the Boston memorial to the Kings it was all "this sucks" and "what even is it" 🤔
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@11thHour @SRuhle You can watch the full interview here: And, yes, I did spend about an hour trying to gussy up this bookshelf for @ratemyskyperoom.
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HARVARD PRESIDENT CLAUDINE GAY TO RESIGN. @thecrimson scoops the story. Thoughts incoming from Editorial by morning.
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Former Harvard Medical School Dean @jflier speaks from experience on the need for the Harvard Corporation to change its approach to governance. "A non-fiduciary board cannot substitute for the lack of meaningful input from a distant and lightly-involved Corporation.".
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A video from Harvard Yard just now. The encampment is on the other side of the building on the right. Would you know this is anything but an ordinary sunny spring day? Campus is far from chaos.
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@jflier @ijbailey Professor @boazbaraktcs calls for a recommitment to institutional neutrality to regain trust in Harvard, observing that "Somehow, when Jews were involved, Harvard rediscovered its commitment to protecting speech even when it is offensive.".
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I am very, very proud to be part of @thecrimson's Editorial Board today. A needed, righteously angry editorial on the all-out assault on free speech to which Harvard has swung open the gates.
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@jflier @ijbailey @boazbaraktcs @guille_hava @kelishawill @thecrimson A special thanks to our editors for working double-time yesterday; to @SellersHill for being crazy enough to say yes to nine; to @CaraChang20 & @raquelco15 for exiting retirement to support it; and most of all to @JacobMeirMiller, my wonderful co-Chair, for doing it all with me.
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Our editorial today on Harvard President Claudine Gay doesn't mince words:. We think it's pathetic that the GOP made antisemitism a pretext to attack higher ed. We think the vast majority of Harvard students aren't antisemitic. We think Gay must stay.
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OK, OK, I've been trying to resist the corporate instinct, but: . I'm literally giddy to announce that I'll be leading @thecrimson's Editorial Board for the coming year as Editorial Chair, alongside the incredibly kind and sharp @JacobMeirMiller.
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@EoinHiggins_ The private high school in question is and has always been totally free for all students.
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Or it could be, idk, downstream of the seismic change in college admissions this past year. (Reader, early applications were due before the congressional testimony and much of the national circus).
Harvard College Early Applications Drop 17% From Last Year . It takes 400 years to build a reputation and only a few months to destroy it.
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Today @CrimsonOpinion released the most important piece i've written. Why does Harvard have so few low-income students? It fails to sufficiently adjust for class in admissions — and, tirelessly, covers the whole process up.
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The design of the Harvard Kennedy School is the most persuasive indictment of the bureaucratic state I've ever encountered
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Our staff-ed on plagiarism charges against Harvard University President Claudine Gay, in two parts. First, on the ethics:. 1. Gay plagiarized. 2. The nature of the plagiarism suggests clearly that she didn't intend to plagiarize. Conclusion: She shouldn't have to depart.
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My first op-ed in a while, in response to a frankly ridiculous, possibly unprecedented settlement by Harvard that could imperil free speech and academic freedom — and invite more of the same.
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@realchrisrufo Extremely and intentionally misleading to represent these op-eds as the opinion of these publications or their editorial boards.
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@jflier @ijbailey @boazbaraktcs @guille_hava Student Lorenzo Z. Ruiz makes the case for a new kind of Harvard president. "That president should buck convention. Should be remarkable and novel. Should be a spectacular amalgam of intellect and charisma armed with the media and strategy staff of any national political entity.".
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In case anyone is wondering why i am this way.
What does a book look like after a Regian has gone through it? The English Department last week put out a call for the year's best, most intense annotations. See all the winners, featuring tiny, insightful comments on texts by Baldwin, Fitzgerald, Shakespeare, and Shelley.
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Catch me on @11thHour tonight at ~11:45 PM EST! I'll be discussing the abrupt end of Claudine Gay's tenure and the path forward for Harvard with @SRuhle.
TONIGHT: Biden lays out stakes for 2024 race – Ohio grand jury weighs charges for woman accused of ‘abusing corpse’ after miscarriage – Harvard under fire after Gay’s resignation.@SRuhle.@JoyceWhiteVance.@sbg1.@mikememoli.@kavitapmd.@carloslcurbelo.@RonFilipkowski.@tbarone03.
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A personal note: While fact-checking our editorial, I had to change a line saying that ~half of Gay's published journal articles contain plagiarism. Why? Because the real count is only two of her 11. She deserves sharp criticism. But the uproar can seriously inflate the facts.
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In the discourse on antisemitism on our campus, the voices of public figures have often drowned out those of Harvard's Jewish affiliates . Today, we look to change that with five compelling, frank op-eds from Jewish affiliates on antisemitism at Harvard.
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As the chair of the editorial board in question, I can confirm that we have not in fact endorsed Donald Trump for president.
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@WSJ This is not, to be clear, a defense of elite colleges or the artificial scarcity they create! It's just a frank recognition that publications cover admissions in ways that very clearly reflect how long it's been since their reporters themselves applied to college.
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Trying to make harvard less of a safe space for pre-McKinsey types day by day, message by message
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After a few-day hiatus, @thecrimson Editorial team comes roaring back with three strong pieces offering more Claudine Gay post-mortem analysis and pointing to the way forward. 🧵🧵🧵.
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Stunning, by a member of the College Honor Council:. "When students — my classmates, peers, and friends — appear before the council, they are distraught. For most, it is the worst day of their college careers. For some, it is the worst day of their lives. They often cry." . 1/3.
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I am unbelievably excited about the next leadership of The Crimson. Our next president @mckenna_mckrell and my two successors @SaulArnow1 and Max Palys could not have worked harder or deserved it more. Great things to come from the 152nd guard.
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The notion that Neri Oxman is being targeted for anything other than being Bill Ackman's wife is pretty breathlessly hysterical. He's been hammering Gay for plagiarism. It's obviously newsworthy to see how he'd respond to plagiarism from someone he doesn't hate.
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I don't really care about Harvard student government, but the fact that I am expected to form enough of a position to rank every candidate for every position (seven co-prez tickets!!!) is:. a) insane; and b) causing me not to vote in this election.
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Today, Editorial is proud to publish three more pieces discussing the plagiarism allegations against Harvard University President Claudine Gay, featuring a rare ~anonymous~ op-ed discussing the double standard in Harvard's confidential plagiarism process.
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If you are a Harvard student or professor with strong thoughts on Gay's resignation, feel free to reach out to me at tommy.barone@thecrimson.com with op-ed inquiries!.
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BREAKING: Chappell Roan snubbed by Obama and Charli xcx's name incorrectly stylized with the second word in all-caps.
With summer winding down, I wanted to share some songs that I’ve been listening to lately – and it wouldn’t be my playlist if it didn’t include an eclectic mix. I hope you find something new to listen to!
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If you read literally anything today, make it this. Such a compelling case of how easy money at Harvard can fuel ego/misconduct/excess.
Over the past two months, @sagelattman and I.spoke with numerous current and former members of the Harvard Foreign Policy Initiative, uncovering a pattern of internal conflict and financial misconduct around under its former president.
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Four Harvard Divinity School profs. on campus antisemitism, out today in The Crimson. "As historians of religion, we know all too well the dangers that arise when abstracted polemics overshadow lived realities.".
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BIG: @thecrimson Editorial Board endorses institutional neutrality. "Having criticized the University for failing to make these statements more than perhaps any other group, we mean it when we now say: It is time for Harvard to turn off the megaphone.".
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Hi Twitter, I'm super excited to officially have my first in @thecrimson!!! If you're interested in grade inflation, ivory tower politics, the weird place of the elite in American culture, and where Harvard stands within it, click away:
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Ok so it's not working anymore
Summer in DC is hard until you reconceptualize yourself as a turtle sunning on a warm rock. (I won't be taking questions).
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Every prof at Harvard should take notes on how Chinese is taught because it is so easily the most joyful, engaging, and, frankly, best-taught class I have taken here. Higher education courses can + should be fun! People like to be happy when learning and learn better when happy!
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If you're going to read something today, let it be this: A thoughtful, measured, deeply-reported critique of Harvard's infrastructure for responding to sexual assault. Some of the best Title IX reporting I've seen in a long time, from @rachaeldziaba.
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To say I'm not sympathetic to or interested in the Harvard influencer would be an understatement. So I ~really~ mean it when I say: This deeply-reported feature by @AzusaLippit and Kate J. Kaufman is a must-read — fascinating, fun, and, yes, profound.
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The front page and the editorial page from the special edition of @thecrimson on Harvard naming its second president in as many years. Proud, today and every day, to lead the best opinions team in student journalism.
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A year ago today, my Nonno, an immigrant from backwater Sicily who managed to attend the University of Rome and took immense pride in my education, died. Tomorrow, I register for classes at Harvard. Today is a sad day. But it's also pretty cool to realize his greatest dream.
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Proud director of Harvard youth poll education team moment 😌.
JUST IN: President Biden just told a group of lawmakers he is looking at different options to forgive most, if not all, federal student loan debt, per @cbsnews.
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It's not every day that questions you wrote are the main thrust of a Washington Post take, but it's definitely a great day.
Excellent @JRubinBlogger take on @HarvardIOP poll:. "lawmakers would be wise to make a huge push on education, inc accurate instruction about race & mental health. Access to mental health providers must increase & financial assistance. must be extended.".
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A GORGEOUS visualization of @thecrimson Editorial Board's ranked-choice vote to evaluate the Harvard Board of Overseers candidates . If you're an engaged alum (or just care about Harvard governance!) check out our innovative, must-read voter guide here:
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.@thecrimson's Editorial Board on the plagiarism allegations, in brief!. Read in full here:
Our staff-ed on plagiarism charges against Harvard University President Claudine Gay, in two parts. First, on the ethics:. 1. Gay plagiarized. 2. The nature of the plagiarism suggests clearly that she didn't intend to plagiarize. Conclusion: She shouldn't have to depart.
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I would direct the many people in my replies with arguments about the Civil Rights Movement to this section of my op-ed. Two big differences between the CRM and today's protests are that the former was incredibly well-planned and not construed to be calling for mass violence.
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Last week, we found out Harvard is set to consider a policy of institutional neutrality. Today, @thecrimson opinion section has two Harvard professors from @cafharvard taking dueling positions on the question 🧵🧵🧵.
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Just an observation: The (putative) existence of a double standard does not imply how it should be resolved. To the extent that one exists when it comes to faculty v. student plagiarism at Harvard, we should consider if the student standard is good!.
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The best there is, folks!!!.
It was a pleasure to join @PoppyHarlowCNN & @Phil_Mattingly on @CNNThisMorning to discuss @thecrimson's coverage of the plagiarism allegations against Harvard President Claudine Gay
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BIG: @thecrimson is starting a weekly opinion newsletter. With the discourse about Harvard and higher ed churning faster than ever, it can be hard to keep up. This Week in Opinions, launching Sun., will have all you need to stay in the loop. Subscribe:
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My new pfp is an over-earnest selfie of me walking to return my mail-in ballot during golden hour this past fall. I figure if i'm going to act like a millenial on social media i might as well look the part too.
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Four American presidents have been assassinated.
Trump: If I took this shirt off, you would see a beautiful beautiful person. But you would see wounds all over. I’ve taken a lot of wounds I can tell you. More than I suspect any president ever
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From @boazbaraktcs:. "Up to this year, I did not think of myself as a 'Zionist' any more than my U.S.-born daughter is an 'Americanist.' I did not consider the existence of my birth country as being up for debate. Yet apparently, at Harvard, it is.".
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ICYMI, this past Friday I talked about the Kate Middleton picture that broke the internet on MSNBC's @11thHour. My real concern: What happens when images are AI-generated — not just doctored — and too few people care to catch it?
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Know that any and all young journalists WILL be trying to work a KHive meme into their coverage of VP Harris today.
You think this foreign policy just fell out of a coconut tree? It exists within the context of three other Democratic administrations.
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“What I conclude from this study is the Ivy League doesn’t have low-income students because it doesn’t want low-income students,” said Susan Dynarski. ^this 15M times.
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@HBendaas @daveweigel 1. These are probably lower propensity voters, and relatively few in number . 2. This position could be harmful among a larger, more reliable universe of voters. 3. The Harris campaign has absolutely thought about this particular issue from every angle.
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Why is showing people music you like the most vulnerable experience there is.
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