When Laura C. Dove arrived at Harvard’s Institute of Politics in 2023, she had just come from the University of Chicago’s version of the same experiment.
The contrast was immediate.
Chicago’s Institute of Politics, where Dove spent the fall of 2022, felt “more like a clubhouse than anything else,” she said. Its staff worked out of an old house, students drifted in and out, and the atmosphere was scrappy.
“You can always get a taco and a conversation,” Dove said. “There’s always food there, and there’s always somebody who’s talking about something interesting. It just has more of a casual feeling.”
Harvard felt different.
Cambridge,
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