On the cover: Illustration by Taylor Callery
Letters
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Letters about the Middle East war and campus upheavals, the energy transition, legacies, and more
Harvard Sundered
Amid the Middle Eastern crisis, preserving room for reasoned debate
Three Cheers
Welcoming the magazine’s new publisher and two editorial colleagues
January-February 2024
On the cover: Illustration by Taylor Callery
Features
The Philosopher of the Real World
Susanna Siegel moves beyond dialectical debates.
Zelia Nuttall
Brief life of a remarkable anthropologist (1857-1933)
Break Every Chain
How black plaintiffs in the Jim Crow South sought justice
How to Make a Mammal
Studying the fates of cells, Sharad Ramanathan comes closer to understanding the biology of development.
RIGHT NOW Harvard research and ideas
Values and Voting Patterns
Thinking globally versus locally is predictive of political views
What Makes Fish Fast?
George Lauder investigates nature’s solutions to underwater speed.
Deciphering Lyme Disease
Whole-genome analysis exposes the sophistication and vulnerabilities underlying Lyme disease.
John Harvard's Journal University news
The Dogs of War
Harvard’s reactions to Hamas’s terrorism and Israel’s response
Tom Hyry
What Harvard's special collections librarian has learned from athletics, activism
Regearing Ph.D. Education
Rethinking advising, and financial needs, as doctoral training evolves.
On Your Behalf
Honoring Harvard Magazine contributing writers and artists
Financial Fitness
Harvard sustains a fiscal 2023 operating surplus—and endowment returns turn (modestly) positive.
Yesterday’s News
Harvard Law School: the skating rink
FAS: Faculty and Fisc
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences’s fisc—and aging professoriate
News in Brief
Nobel laureate in economics, public-health dean, breaking ground in Allston, and more
Back on Top
An Ivy title—dimmed by defeat in the Game
Montage Books, creative arts, performance and more
Thinking Archaically
The earthly permanence of Romolo Del Deo’s sculpture
Democracy Endangered
American democracy endangered by minority rule
Living the Science Fiction Fantasy
Novelist Catherine Asaro’s space operas
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
Educational Ascent
Ruth Simmons on her ascent from sharecropper’s daughter to scholar
Behind the Scenes
The quirky surrealism of production designer Sue Chan
Harvard Squared What to do in Boston, Cambridge and beyond
No Sleepy Coastal Town
Visiting Portsmouth in winter
Bats, In Fact
Peabody Essex Museum dispels negative myths around these nocturnal creatures
Fresh Takes on the Caribbean
The ICA/Boston's exhibit offers views from the diaspora
No Sweat
How to create the home gym of your dreams
University People Harvardians far and wide
The Tangible Past
How Philip C. Mead enlivens American history
Battling Eating Disorders
A medical student’s cause
Is Pedagogy About Us?
Questioning the intellectual rigor of bringing identity into the classroom
Greg Stone, An Emerging Novelist at 70
Late-life inspiration leads to pulpy noir novel
