It is clear that the Freedom Trail sweeps non-White, non-male, non-affluent areas under the rug — ignoring areas like Beacon Hill that house much of the city’s Black and women’s historical landmarks.
Despite fits and starts, periods of expansion and periods where presidents have sought to just keep the trains running on time, the HPR has worked to produce quality political commentary and a quality political community.
In the end, I most sincerely hope that voters engage not with the mudslinging and personal politics but with the substantive visions that each campaign proposes.
I have my senior thesis in front of me, and it presents a perfect opportunity to use accessible journalistic language in academic writing even when neither journalism nor academia at Harvard want particularly to engage with each other.
Opposition came from within the government itself, especially through political competition at the municipal level and institutional blockage at the national level.
In the end, Pérez Jiménez transformed the city, but he did not transform hearts and minds. Although the buildings still stand, his government’s legacy most certainly does not.
