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Radcliffe Institute Announces 2026-2027 Fellows
Scholars will tap Harvard’s intellectual resources during the coming academic year.
Samuel Huntington remembered
A memorial minute on the eminent political scientist
Teaching rap in China, and contemplating one's blackness
Teaching rap in a Chinese high school, and contemplating one’s blackness
Harvard botanists hunt rare plants in China
The hunt for rare plants in China
Brief life of Henry Chapman Mercer, innovative ceramicist
Brief life of an innovative ceramicist: 1856-1930
Critic and poet Fred Moten, profiled by Jesse McCarthy
Fred Moten’s subversive black-studies scholarship
Excerpt from “Off the Charts,” by Ann Hulbert
Parents and superkids, then and now
by Ann Hulbert
Hope and despair, harmony and discord: Jonathan Bailey Holland, profiled
Composer Jonathan Bailey Holland on finding his musical voice
Excerpt from "Slow Medicine: The Way to Healing," by Victoria Sweet, M.D.
A doctor’s take on the destruction of medicine
Sketch artist: profile of SNL veteran Colin Jost
Comedian Colin Jost, from Shouts and Murmurs to Saturday Night Live
by Oset Babür
Dara Horn, author of "Eternal Life," profiled
Dara Horn breathes life into classical Jewish sources.