Opinion
Kornberg: Saving Perspective
By Josh Kornberg | October 31, 2011Yankees relief pitcher Mariano Rivera is pitching to former Red Sox backup catcher Doug Mirabelli in top of the 11th.
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Opinion
Kornberg: Prospie Purgatory
By Josh Kornberg | October 17, 2011Last year, 2,178 students were accepted to the Class of 2015. An additional 1,800 students were put on the waitlist.
Opinion
Kornberg: Don't Rush Into It
By Josh Kornberg | September 28, 2011I like to imagine that I'm wise enough to be suspicious of my own desire to seem wise after all, even good advice is usually useless, since it rarely changes the recipient.
Opinion
Kornberg: Out of Tragedy, Understanding
By Josh Kornberg | September 20, 2011This column isn't about 9/11 as a watershed geo-political moment when "everything changed," it isn't about how "America lost its innocence" and it isn't about "9/11 as the end of an era." Instead, this column is mainly about solipsism and America today.
Opinion
Office Ontologies
By Josh Kornberg | June 23, 2011It seems there are certain types of people you find only in the offices of white-collar America. There are the classic stereotypes water cooler guy, toady, troll and then there are the bona fide loons, the true idiosyncrasies, the specimens listed below for whom no amount of education can prepare you.
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Kornberg: An Ode to Green Key
By Josh Kornberg | May 19, 2011We know the difference between the scope and scale of everything that whizzes through our brains and the teensy fraction of it anyone will ever understand.
Opinion
Kornberg: The Final Four
By Josh Kornberg | May 2, 2011Four weeks ago I criticized President Kim for pursuing policies that I considered "counterproductive." It's only fair to now elaborate on what I meant by providing a list of simple policies I think might help to transform his presidency policies that should be relatively uncontroversial, pose few logistical problems, and, if implemented properly, provide the greatest good at the lowest cost. 1) Make ROTC an independent on-campus program.
Opinion
Kornberg: Investing in Internships
By Josh Kornberg | April 14, 2011I've heard a distinguished intellectual use the phrase "counter-haha" in serious academic discourse.
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Kornberg: Wail to the Chief
By Josh Kornberg | March 27, 2011I met College President Jim Yong Kim last spring. He's surprisingly tall, as perhaps many already know, with eyes that sparkle like obsidian and a soothing voice that sounds as if primed by the constant sucking of mentholated lozenges.
Opinion
Kornberg: Our Ticking Time Bomb
By Josh Kornberg | February 22, 2011Perhaps my favorite painting is Salvador Dali's aptly titled "Soft Watch at the Moment of First Explosion." At the painting's center is a gold watch, strapless, with a milky white face that's beginning to droop and peel and tangle in little knots whose ends splay like the nubs of a ballpark frank.