June 21, 2011

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Published in the September-October 2011 print issue under the headline “The Classes,” in the Alumni section.

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

The University calls federal actions “retaliatory.”

Kennedy School professor of public policy Julia Minson on how to improve political conversations

How a book on fighting the “Devill World” survived Harvard’s historic fire.

How an abundance of A’s created “the most stressed-out world of all.”

The growing genre of climate fiction offers a way to process reality—and our anxieties.