On the Cover: Illustration by James Steinberg
Harvard Endowment, Criminal Justice, and Settler Colonialism
Readers’s views on road safety, protests, settler colonialism, and responding to the Trump administration’s actions against Harvard
John Rosenberg Retires From Harvard Magazine
The long-time editor signs off
Higher Education at an Inflection Point
Making the case for higher education, diversity, the humanities, speech, and more—at a perilous time
May-June 2025
On the Cover: Illustration by James Steinberg
Why Men Are Falling Behind in Education, Employment, and Health
What to do as men and boys fall behind
Alice Hamilton at Harvard—Pioneer for Women in Medicine
Brief life of a public-health pioneer and reformer: 1869-1970
Addressing Gaps in Care for Patients with Disabilities
Lisa Iezzoni explores the unmet needs of patients with disabilities.
The Franklin Stove—A Historical Climate Change Adaptation
Historian Joyce E. Chaplin reinterprets an early era of invention, industrialization, and climate challenge
RIGHT NOW Harvard research and ideas
Making Green Energy Projects Financially Viable
A proposed “green” swap enables decarbonization of emerging market development projects.
Biology's "Mirror Organisms"—And Their Dangers
Life forms built from left-handed DNA and RNA could threaten Earth’s plants, animals, and insects.
Why Taxi Drivers Don’t Die of Alzheimer’s
Explaining taxi and ambulance drivers’ protection against Alzheimer’s disease.
John Harvard's Journal University news
The Trump Administration's Impact on Higher Education
Unprecedented federal actions against research funding, diversity, speech, and more
Harvard Percussionist and Composer Jessie Cox
An experimental percussionist-composer pushing the limits of music
Lawrence Bacow on the Auschwitz Memorial
President Lawrence S. Bacow reflects on the liberation of Auschwitz
Short Headlines from Harvard's History
Seniors’ uncertain future c. 1940, Harvard Law Review news, and more
Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Discipline and Financial Aid
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences discusses classroom conversations, boosts aid, addresses discipline—and faces austerity
Brief Harvard News Spring 2025
Physician-authors address Commencement and Alumni Day, new School of Education Dean, and more
Montage Books, creative arts, performance, and more
Children's Books from Ann Kim Ha
Ann Kim Ha’s poignant children’s books
Chinese Immigrants in Early America
Michael Luo ’98 on the first great wave of immigration—and of nativist anti-immigrant reaction
Publications by Harvard Authors Spring 2025: New Releases
Operatic counterculture, a Passover graphic novel, James Joyce’s biographer, and more
Jessica Shand—Math and Music at Harvard
Jessica Shand blends math and music.
The Sum of Our Choices
On the limitations of a prevailing worldview
Filmmaker Salvador Litvak's Jewish Movies
The “Accidental Talmudist” on making Jewish movies
Harvard SquaredWhat to do in Boston, Cambridge, and beyond
The Estate Behind Saint-Gaudens National Historical Park
Park offers art, nature, and history in New Hampshire
Harvard Commencement and Alumni Events 2025
Harvard Commencement and Alumni Events 2025
Springtime with Mass Audubon
Springtime with Mass Audubon
Restaurant Recommendations Cambridge 2025
Tastes from Cambridge’s eclectic restaurants
Jung Yeondoo: Building Dreams at the Peabody Essex Museum
South Korean artist’s socially themed photographs at the Peabody Essex Museum
University People Harvardians far and wide
Shepherdess Mary Berle's Massachussetts Mountain Farm
A former educator takes on one last big project: sheep farming
Vote for the Board of Overseers and the Harvard Alumni Association Elected Directors
Overseer and HAA Elected Director Slate 2025
Harvard Wireless club
Student ham enthusiasts turn back time.
A Harvard Love Story in Poetry
Young love: the poem, plus enduring lessons from a public-health pioneer
Paper Peepshows at Harvard's Baker Library
How “paper peepshows” brought distant realms to life
