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Letters
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The campus sundered, stem cell research, voting, and more
A Look in the Mirror
Challenges for Harvard governance and leadership
March-April 2024
On the cover: Illustration by Jennifer Carling/Harvard Magazine
Features
Why Americans Love to Hate Harvard
The president emeritus on elite universities’ academic accomplishments—and a rising tide of antagonism
How Birds Lost Flight
Scott Edwards discovers evolution’s master switches.
Winthrop Bell: Harvard Philosopher, MI6 Spy, and Early Forecaster of the Holocaust
Brief life of a philosopher and spy: 1884-1965
Diagnosis by Fiction
The “Healing Quartet,” by “Samuel Shem,” probes medicine—and life.
RIGHT NOW Harvard research and ideas
Controlling AI Influence over Consumers
When pricing algorithms take advantage of an individual’s ignorance, legal scrutiny is in order.
Computational Control of a Living Brain?
How an AI agent learned to guide an animal to food—and what it might mean for Parkinson’s patients.
Fictions about the Forces Driving Migration
Glenda Carpio on the new migration narrative
John Harvard's Journal University news
A Presidency’s End
Controversies over terrorism and antisemitism, free speech, plagiarism, and broader cultural currents bring a brief presidency to a traumatic end.
George Sarrinikolaou
Provost for climate and sustainability’s journey from Athens to Harvard
Talking about Talking
Fostering healthy disagreement
Yesterday’s News
The Carpenter Center celebrated
Reengineering Arts and Sciences
Spurring innovation, rethinking departments, tapping centers—and Ph.D. support
Applying AI—How and Why
Using AI in pedagogy, research, and University administration
News in Brief
Education dean and football coach step down, a significant art acquisition, and more
Board of Overseers and HAA Elected Director Candidates
The slates for this spring’s ballot
Montage Books, creative arts, performance and more
Making Space
The natural history of Junko Yamamoto’s art and architecture
The Happy Warrior Redux
Hubert Humphrey’s liberalism reconsidered
A Dogged Observer
Novelist and psychiatrist Daniel Mason takes the long view.
Off the Shelf
Revolutionizing French fashion, early Chinese writing, and more
Spellbound on Stage
Actor and young adult novelist Aislinn Brophy
Harvard Squared What to do in Boston, Cambridge and beyond
Vacationing with a Purpose
New England “summer camps” for adults
Celebrating Harvard Square’s Newest Performance Space
Arrow Street Arts
Capturing the American South
Photographs at the Addison Gallery of American Art
Go Wild
How often have you wandered the Arnold Arboretum or a Trustees property, longing to bring that serenity and lush beauty to your own yard?
University People Harvardians far and wide
Leading with Care
Michael Hill strikes the right balance.
Strategic Planning
A chess player’s moves on AI safety
AWOL from Academics
Behind students' increasing pull toward extracurriculars
At 75, Murray Dewart Reflects on His Career as a Sculptor
Thinking about what it means to be an artist through the years
