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5 things we learned this week

Sy Boles

Harvard Staff Writer

March 6, 2025 1 min read

How closely have you been following the Gazette? Take our quiz to find out.

The woke left has a conflict of interest; a blinding eye injury may be treatable; interest in republics is surging; TikTok underestimated power of music; the best way to watch David Lynch.

1. In his book “We Have Never Been Woke,” what does Musa al-Gharbi call many left-leaning people who likely identify as anti-racist, feminist, and LGBTQ+ allies?

Yuppies

Symbolic capitalists

Globalists

Social justice warriors

2. What new treatment showed promise in a clinical trial for previously untreatable corneal injuries?

CRISPR

Corneal transplant

Stem cell therapy

3. Professor Daniel Carpenter argues in his increasingly popular class “What is a Republic?” that America should be either exclusively a republic or exclusively a democracy.

True

False

4. How much money did a Business School study estimate Universal Music Group was losing annually due to listeners on TikTok prior to a 2024 agreement?

$3 million

$84 million

$411 million

$788 million

5. The Harvard Film Archive holds 35 mm prints of which of the following David Lynch works?

“Eraserhead”

“Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me”

“Wild at Heart”