Harvard Magazine

A student uses a shovel to clear debris and weeds from graves in a cemetery

Performing Arts

Harvard Students Restore the Old Burying Ground

Members of the Hasty Pudding Institute help revive the graves of former Harvard presidents.

Latest news

Nancy Hill, Rendall Howell, and their son Theo sit together on a couch in a cozy living room, smiling at the camera.

New Faculty Deans Announced for Currier House

Education professor Nancy Hill and her husband Rendall Howell will start their roles in July.

University News

Joseph Nye, former Dean of Harvard Kennedy School and leading political scientist

Mark Carney on the Limits of Soft Power

At the 2026 Davos summit, the Canadian prime minister echoes Harvard’s Joseph Nye.

International affairs

Podcasting is becoming one of the fastest-growing methods of sharing political discourse to wide audiences

Are Creators the Future of Democracy?

A Harvard panel considers how “parasocial relationships” might drive democratic engagement.

Harvard Kennedy School of Government

Loeb House surrounded by snow and greenery under a clear blue sky.

Harvard Board of Overseers Candidates Describe Priorities

Alumni will vote for the University governing board in April and May.

University News

Read More Articles

Featured

A stylized illustration of red coral branching from a gray base, resembling a fantastical entity.

This TikTok Artist Combines Monsters and Mental Heath

Ava Jinying Salzman’s artwork helps people process difficult feelings.

Two students stand in front of a presentation as they deliver a talk

Teaching Through War With AI

Harvard Graduate School of Education students examine the use of AI in wartime Ukraine.

Explore More From Current Issue

Evolutionary progression from primates to humans in a colorful illustration.

Why Humans Walk on Two Legs

Research highlights our evolutionary ancestors’ unique pelvis.

A jubilant graduate shouts into a megaphone, surrounded by a cheering crowd.

For Campus Speech, Civility is a Cultural Practice

A former Harvard College dean reviews Princeton President Christopher Eisgruber’s book Terms of Respect.

A football player kicking a ball while another teammate holds it on the field.

A Near-Perfect Football Season Ends in Disappointment

A loss to Villanova derails Harvard in the playoffs.

A girl sits at a desk, flanked by colorful, stylized figures, evoking a whimsical, surreal atmosphere.

Undergraduate Column

The Trouble with Sidechat

No one feels responsible for what happens on Harvard’s anonymous social media app.

The Magazine

Read Past Issues

Cover of Harvard Magazine featuring turbulent ocean waves and the text "Food for Thought."

January
February 2026

A hand holds a scale symbolizing justice against a blue background, with the title "JUSTICE" prominently displayed.

November
December 2025

Illustration of three graduates, one wearing a red "MAGA" hat beneath their graduation cap. Cover lines from top: International Students, Civil Rights, Retold, Doxxing. Harvard Magazine, September-October 2025- $7.99. Gen Z's politics are shifting (even at Harvard)

September
October 2025

Cover of Harvard Magazine featuring boxing gloves with U.S. and Harvard insignias hanging below the headline “It’s on.”

July
August 2025

May-June 2025

May
June 2025

March-April 2025

March
April 2025

Read Past Issues

Harvard Magazine in Audio

Powered by trinityaudio.ai

Harvard in the headlines

Harvard Magazine sorts through news and commentary in other media and shares diverse views with you. Learn more.

Let the Arms Race Begin

The New York Times | 1.30.2026

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Nuclear Treaties and the Russo-Ukrainian Conflict

An Academic and a Dealmaker Takes on the Challenge of Running Columbia

The New York Times | 1.27.2026

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Peacemakers

Geopolitics in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Foreign Affairs | 1.27.2026

What Science Tells Us About Arguing With Your Father-in-Law

The New York Times | 1.25.2026

How Venezuela Becomes a Quagmire

Foreign Affairs | 1.16.2026

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Harvard Scholars Discuss Venezuela After Maduro and A Geopolitical Windfall?

Trump pushes AI data centers, but the GOP is cool to one in Alabama

The Boston Globe | 1.27.2026

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: How AI Energy Demand Costs Consumers and Green AI: Hype or Hope?

Read More Articles

From our archives

Comic illustration of hyperactive, pressured teens, many on their screens

Teen "Grind" Culture and Mental Health

Teens need better strategies to cope with lives lived partly online.

Cross-stitched fabric with the text "Home Unaffordable Home" over a background of high-rise apartment buildings.

Social Sciences

America’s Housing Problem—Explained

How zoning reforms could address a crisis that squeezes the poor and the middle class

Illustration of a human head with abstract, colorful brain waves overlayed.

Health & Medicine

How Does the Brain Interpret Language in Real-Time?

New research on how the brain uses sounds to form words and create meaning.

Portrait of Tom Cannon in a striped jockey uniform and matching cap.

Stevengraphs: Woven Silk Portraits from Coventry to Harvard

Five strange trading “cards”

Barbara Lawrence seated, wearing a textured blouse, in a portrait from the late 1930s.

Harvard Pioneering Mammalogist Barbara Lawrence

Brief life of an intrepid mammalogist: 1909-1997

Sunlit library room at the Boston Atheneum

Museums & Collections

The New Boston Athenaeum

Find “the joy of discovery and power of this unique place.”

Illustration of a head in a cloud of oranges

Can an Orange a Day Stave off Depression?

A research study digs into the gut microbiome.

Frank Gevalt standing beside his detailed model city "Port Charles," featuring buildings, bridges, and an urban skyline.

From Harvard-Trained Architect to Miniature Diorama Builder

Fred Gevalt’s astonishing and intricate diorama