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Historic buildings and American flag in Litchfield, Connecticut

Litchfield’s Legal Eagles

Visiting America’s first formal law school

by Nell Porter-Brown

Do You Believe in Magic?

Former practicing magician Dan Droz ’72 turns his tricks into a career in sculpture

by Nancy Walecki

Historic portrait of Henry Clarke Warren

Henry Clarke Warren

Brief life of a Harvard-educated Buddhist scholar: 1854-1899

by David Gauld

Illustration depicting a summer-school student sunbathing on the steps of Widener Library

Headlines from Harvard’s history

Headlines from Harvard’s history

President Lawrence S. Bacow

The View from Mass Hall

President Bacow on international students, immigrants, and refugees

by Lawrence S. Bacow

Conceptual illustration of a budding plant with long roots reaching into words of failure

When “Failure” Means Success

Learning how to make the most of setbacks at Harvard

by Josie Abugov

Illustration of Emily Dickinson talking to tech support

Emily Dickinson—Dashed

Alexandra Petri introduces the poet to tech support for help with her keyboard.

Portrait of Harvard Alumni Association executive director Sarah Karmon

Sarah Karmon in “listening mode”

Harvard Alumni Association’s new executive director

by Nell Porter-Brown

Illustration of an anthropomorphized artificial intelligence or AI breaking into a system

Prepare for AI Hackers

Human systems of all kinds may soon be vulnerable to subversion by artificial intelligence.

by Daniel Oberhaus

Art depicting Vegas showgirl kissing businessman

American Stories, in Wood

Marquetry artist Alison Elizabeth Taylor at the Addison Gallery of American Art

by Nell Porter-Brown

Republican or Early Imperial Roman relief of the Greek playwright Menander, 100 BCE-early first century CE

The Case for Cultural Appropriation

How humans hybridize their civilizations

by Adam Kirsch

Photograph of a California two-spot octopus

Inner Senses

Nicholas Bellono probes the biological basis of animal adaptations and behaviors.

by Jonathan Shaw