Letters
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Letters on President Bacow, the solicitor general, Facebook, and more
At the Core
Matching Harvard’s money to its mission
November-December 2018
Features
The Bits the Bible Left Out
Karen King studies texts from Christianity’s first centuries to reinterpret the history of the early church.
Millicent Todd Bingham
Brief life of an unlikely Dickinson scholar
The Cell’s Power Plant
Probing the mysteries of mitochondria, Vamsi Mootha discovers new ways to understand metabolic disease.
The Juggler’s Tale
A Dumbarton Oaks exhibition connects “an enchanted past” to the human condition.
The Players
How the Crimson squad from the immortal ’68 Game revealed a transforming Harvard
RIGHT NOW Harvard research and ideas
A Language of Behavior?
Sandeep Datta says the brain composes behavior from pre-existing “syllables.”
Gut Flora Fix for Fitness?
Altering one gene in a gut microbe transforms metabolism.
Diversity and Diminishing Tax Revenues
Can public goods survive white flight?
John Harvard's Journal University news
Larry 29
The University’s new leader focuses on challenges to higher education in America.
Harvard Hubs
Smith Campus Center, Klarman Hall debut.
Khalil Abdur-Rashid
The University’s Muslim chaplain
Money Matters
The bottom line on the endowment
The Campaign, Concluded
Harvard’s $9.62-billion fund drive
News Briefs
Admissions litigation, sexual assault, humanities losses, endowment taxes
Yesterday’s News
Headlines from Harvard’s history
Brevia
New development director, online degrees, leadership leaders, and more
Taking a Page from Knopf
Harvard University Press director George Andreou on the future of academic publishing
Language Learner
The Undergraduate considers study abroad.
A Hard Road
The early season holds no easy wins for Harvard football.
Striking Distance
Ranked first in the world, fencer Eli Dershwitz looks to the 2020 Olympics.
Montage Books, creative arts, performance and more
Darkness Visible
Opera director Sarah Meyers doesn’t want you to notice everything.
Medicine Minus Mythmaking
Two Harvard doctors on William Carlos Williams
Coming Apart Together
The propulsive intensity of Shane McCrae’s poetry
The Weight of Scale
Questions about how societies conceptualize, perceive, and interpret scale.
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
The Devil and Philip Johnson
A “star-chitect” as P.T. Barnum
Chapter & Verse
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Harvard Squared What to do in Boston, Cambridge and beyond
Creative Gifts
Boston’s open studios, holiday craft fairs, and more
Twyla Tharp: “Minimalism and Me”
A retrospective show at Boston’s ICA
Winter’s Bright Spots
Winterlights and scavenger hunts at the historic Stevens-Coolidge Place
Photography in Baldwin’s Era
Eighteen photographers capture the 1930s through the 1980s.
Be Present: Experiential Holiday Gifts for Everyone on Your List
A roundup of creative gift ideas for this holiday season
Almuni Harvardians far and wide
Please, Run!
Social entrepreneur Jill Vialet ’86 on “positive chaos” and fixing recess
Alaskan Educator
In rural Alaska, Jim Merriner runs a school district with a major educational footprint across the state.
