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Readers’s views on road safety, protests, settler colonialism, and responding to the Trump administration’s actions against Harvard
Fond Farewell
The long-time editor signs off
Playing Offense
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
The New Gender Gaps
What to do as men and boys fall behind
Alice Hamilton
Brief life of a public-health pioneer and reformer: 1869-1970
Quality of Care
Lisa Iezzoni explores the unmet needs of patients with disabilities.
Ben Franklin’s Project
Historian Joyce E. Chaplin reinterprets an early era of invention, industrialization, and climate challenge
RIGHT NOW Harvard research and ideas
Greening Global Finance
A proposed “green” swap enables decarbonization of emerging market development projects.
The Dangers of Mirror Life
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
In the Crosshairs
Unprecedented federal actions against research funding, diversity, speech, and more
Jessie Cox
An experimental percussionist-composer pushing the limits of music
Against “Indifference”
President Lawrence S. Bacow reflects on the liberation of Auschwitz
Yesterday’s News
Seniors’ uncertain future c. 1940, Harvard Law Review news, and more
Back to Basics
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences discusses classroom conversations, boosts aid, addresses discipline—and faces austerity
News in Brief
Physician-authors address Commencement and Alumni Day, new School of Education Dean, and more
Montage Books, creative arts, performance, and more
A New Voice
Ann Kim Ha’s poignant children’s books
The Chinese in America
Michael Luo ’98 on the first great wave of immigration—and of nativist anti-immigrant reaction
Off the Shelf
Operatic counterculture, a Passover graphic novel, James Joyce’s biographer, and more
The Shape of Sound
Jessica Shand blends math and music.
The Sum of Our Choices
On the limitations of a prevailing worldview
Faith through Film
The “Accidental Talmudist” on making Jewish movies
Harvard SquaredWhat to do in Boston, Cambridge, and beyond
Basking in the Beaux-Arts
Park offers art, nature, and history in New Hampshire
Commencement and Alumni Events
Harvard Commencement and Alumni Events 2025
Springtime with Mass Audubon
Springtime with Mass Audubon
Cambridge Smorgasbord
Tastes from Cambridge’s eclectic restaurants
Rendering Dreams in Art
South Korean artist’s socially themed photographs at the Peabody Essex Museum
University People Harvardians far and wide
Flocking Together
A former educator takes on one last big project: sheep farming
Vote Now
Overseer and HAA Elected Director Slate 2025
Small Talk, From Afar
Student ham enthusiasts turn back time.
We Were Students Once...
Young love: the poem, plus enduring lessons from a public-health pioneer
Miniature Worlds
How “paper peepshows” brought distant realms to life
