On the cover: Illustration by Gary Neill
Letters
Cambridge 02138
Letters on academic freedom, reading, the science of sociability, and more
An Academic Agenda
How the administration might pursue Harvard’s core mission, pare bureaucracy, and promote Veritas
November-December 2024
On the cover: Illustration by Gary Neill
Features
Home Unaffordable Home
America’s housing problem—and what to do about it
When Technology and Society Clash
Latanya Sweeney confronts our all-consuming “technocracy.”
The End of the Ivy League?
College sports are changing. Will Harvard athletics?
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Brief life of an activist for freedom: 1823-1911
RIGHT NOW Harvard research and ideas
How the Mind Assigns Meaning to Words
New research on how the brain uses sounds to form words and create meaning.
Why Ivy Athletes Score in Careers
How does undergraduate participation in varsity sports enhance career success?
Predicting Viral Variants and Vaccine Cures
Biomedical researchers are using AI to survey the viral landscape.
John Harvard's Journal University news
Smooth Start
Exhortations to civil discourse, training in how to talk together—and plenty of new campus rules
Pamelyn Bennett
Harvard Law School's "fairy godmother" on hospitality
Yesterday's News
From the pages of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin and Harvard Magazine
News in Brief
Provost appointed, College dean and University Secretary to step down, admissions after affirmative action, and more
Learning Curve
New coach, new season, and early football ups and downs
Montage Books, creative arts, performance and more
Maps of the World
The surreal, artistic cartography of Darren Sears
A Fictional Century
A book about books—and the protagonist is the twentieth-century novel itself.
What You Can Say, Singing
Liv Redpath’s operatic trajectory
A Moral Victory
A new history of the Civil War's Battle of Antietam
Off the Shelf
Books about the art and science of eating, on being Zen, helping youngsters grow up, and more
Harvard, H.H.R., Houghton
Invaluable architectural archive published at last
Harvard Squared What to do in Boston, Cambridge and beyond
The Boston Camerata Turns 70
Celebrating early music
Dancers Respond to “This Crazy Time”
Exploring emotional connections and the climate crisis
Creative Ventures
Shopping locally for the holidays
Holiday Decorating on Steroids
Newport’s mansions further festooned
Urban Enchantment
Spend a holiday overnight in the city, with teas, trees, and festive toasts.
University People Harvardians far and wide
Provocative Politician
South Korea’s Lee Junseok tries to break old binaries.
Harvard Alumni Association Honorands
Six alumni have been recognized for their outstanding service to the University.
Gilbert and Sullivan, Today
Students adapt the operettas to changing times.
The Will of the Donor
How gifts shape student experiences, in often unseen ways
