Letters
Cambridge 02138
Educational effectiveness, final clubs, enduring inequalities
January-February 2018
Features
Botanizing in the “Mother of Gardens”
The hunt for rare plants in China
Henry Chapman Mercer
Brief life of an innovative ceramicist: 1856-1930
The Low End Theory
Fred Moten’s subversive black-studies scholarship
Prodigies’ Progress
Parents and superkids, then and now
RIGHT NOW Harvard research and ideas
A Geopolitical Windfall?
The United States is finally in a position of energy dominance, but its ability to harness this boom is fraught with challenges.
The New Rub on Knee Pain
Neither increased obesity nor longevity explains the doubling of knee osteoarthritis since World War II.
A New Challenge for Antitrust
An increasing consolidation of ownership in health care
John Harvard's Journal University news
Kennedy School Reconstructed
A campus remade in the course of the capital campaign
Strengths—and Warning Signs
After another surplus, cautions about the University’s future financial constraints
Megan Sniffin-Marinoff
The University archivist on what it means to “document Harvard”
Taxing Matters
Congressional tax bills aim at universities’ endowment income.
“Cheaper, Faster, Better”
One year into his deanship, George Daley shares his vision for Harvard Medical School.
University People
The dean of freshmen departs, Rhodes and Marshall scholars, and more
News Briefs
Final-club regulations and preventing preprofessionalism
Samuel Huntington, Prophet
A memorial minute on the eminent political scientist
Yesterday’s News
“Reading period” debuts, the Maharishi visits, a blizzard shuts down the University, and more from the Harvard Alumni Bulletin and Harvard Magazine
Teaching Hip-Hop in China
Teaching rap in a Chinese high school, and contemplating one’s blackness
Brevia
The University Marshal retires, MacArthur fellows, diversifying freshman pre-orientation, and more
With Our Thanks
Recognizing outstanding authors and artists for serving our readers
Not Our Year
A humbling defeat in The Game caps Harvard’s dreariest season in 17 years.
“No Secrets about How to Get Faster”
No longer a “skinny kid,” swimmer Dean Farris ’20 builds on his breakout rookie season.
Montage Books, creative arts, performance and more
A Composed Response
Composer Jonathan Bailey Holland on finding his musical voice
Robotic Healthcare
A doctor’s take on the destruction of medicine
Sketch Artist
Comedian Colin Jost, from Shouts and Murmurs to Saturday Night Live
A Novel Take on Eternal Life
Dara Horn breathes life into classical Jewish sources.
America’s Little Giant
Lincoln Caplan reviews Noah Feldman’s The Three Lives of James Madison: Genius, Partisan, President
Chapter & Verse
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
Harvard Squared What to do in Boston, Cambridge and beyond
Renegade Tastemakers
A Somerville museum highlights art “so bad, it’s good.”
Nigerian Women Speak Out
HEAR WORD! portrays the lives of Nigerian women.
A Wintry Jaunt to Newport, Rhode Island
Visiting Newport, Rhode Island, during the winter
Pork Bao and Bubble Waffles
Asian-fusion food with a Western twist at Chinatown's Shōjō restaurant
Almuni Harvardians far and wide
From Here to Timbuktu
A globe-trotting monk with the Benedictine “survival gene” seeks out treasured manuscripts.
Stories for Change
Nancy Churnin’s picture-book biographies for children span time and space.
