June 24, 2011

The Classes

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Published in the July-August 2011 print issue in the Alumni section.

At Radcliffe, the filmmaker joined Harvard historians to discuss what the nation’s founding means today.

Erica Chenoweth’s data shows how—and when—authoritarians fall.

An architect of Black women’s studies, Barbara Smith introduced the concepts of “identity politics” and “intersectionality.”

Scientists are revisiting an old way of thinking about extinction.

A hotel, restaurants, and other retail establishments are open or on the way.

A sampling of answers about a moral dilemma