On the cover: Police Officers frisk suspects against a bus in New York City, 1980. Photograph by Jill Freedman/Getty Images
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Letters on family roots, Dani Rodrik, opioid associations, and more
Climate Change
President Bacow describes Harvard’s multifaceted approach to “a defining challenge of our time.”
A Chill in the Air?
From Bureau of Study Counsel to Academic Resource Center
September-October 2019
On the cover: Police Officers frisk suspects against a bus in New York City, 1980. Photograph by Jill Freedman/Getty Images
Color and Incarceration
Historian Elizabeth Hinton probes the roots of a gathering crisis.
Throw Your Fastball
A life lesson from Willie Banks
A World of Literature
David Damrosch’s literary global reach
Adella Hunt Logan
Brief life of a rebellious black suffragist: 1863-1915
RIGHT NOW Harvard research and ideas
The Resurrection of the Marlboro Man
Two public-health veterans warn of new smoking risks, especially for the young.
The Rawlsian Revolution
The lasting influence and limitations of John Rawls’s political philosophy
Are Super Responders Special?
Do patients who defeat cancer hold biological secrets?
John Harvard's Journal University news
Under (Green) Wraps
New construction in Allston, and renewal everywhere else, from Adams House to Andover/Swartz Hall
Year One
President Bacow assesses his inaugural year.
Na Li
For a star electrical engineering professor, it's all about systems.
Yesterday’s News
Headlines from Harvard’s history
Catalyzing Bioengineering
The Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering gets another boost.
Commute Cycle
The registrar as long-distance rider
Admissions, through the Ages
College admissions stalwart Dwight Miller retires.
Brevia
The Peabody’s new director, early admissions, AI, endowment taxation, and more
News Briefs
A coach cashiered, a professor sanctioned, an Allston update, and more
Movement Ecology
An activist on activism, in college and after
New Fellows
The Ledecky Fellows provide an undergraduate perspective on life at Harvard.
No Doubt
Linda Liedel ’21 always knew how good she could be.
Montage Books, creative arts, performance, and more
Figuring It Out
On YouTube, watch John Fish grow.
Things Fell Apart
“The rise of the deal and the decline of the American dream”
“Find My Real Husband”
A medical anthropologist cares for his Alzheimer’s-stricken wife.
Creating a Scene
Lighting and set designer Elizabeth Mak communicates stories.
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
“Kind of Dark and Scary”
Animator Renee Zhan finds self-discovery in strange landscapes.
Toward the Negotiated City
In the history of urban renewal, a glimmer of the possibilities of social policy today
Chapter & Verse
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Harvard SquaredWhat to do in Boston, Cambridge, and beyond
Funny, Weird, Macabre
Exploring New England’s more unusual sites with J.W. Ocker
Seeing Science
New Harvard exhibit explores “Visual Science: The Art of Research”
Purgatory—and Beyond
Pleasures to explore in and around Worcester
The Air of Contentment
Dedham’s Fairbanks House: “the oldest wood-frame structure still standing in North America”
For the Love of Horses
Equestrian life and sports on the North Shore
All About the Food
Boston Public Market’s year-round cornucopia
Better Together
Creative artistic collaborations
Almuni Harvardians far and wide
A New Way of Being in the World
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas’s “laser beam” insights into the lives of animals and humans
“Harvard Belongs to All of Us”
Harvard Alumni Association president Alice Hill ’81, Ph.D. ’91
Debt Reliever
Rohan Pavuluri and Upsolve help low-income families cope with debt.
Summer in the City
Turkeys, tourists, traditions, tranquility
