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Illustration about meritocracy: one mother penguin and chick wear college mortarboards, while another mother penguin and her chick don’t.

Michael Sandel’s “The Tyranny of Merit” reviewed by Spencer Lenfield

Michael Sandel makes the case against meritocracy.

by Spencer Lee Lenfield

Illustration imagining the evolution of computer science at Harvard in a playful way

Computer science at Harvard in the 1960s and 1970s

The “yeasty” times” when computer research grew at Harvard

by Harry R. Lewis

Photograph of David Evans

David L. Evans, longtime Harvard admissions officer, retires

David L. Evans made a difference for 50 years.

by Matteo Wong

A woman seated on a stool wearing traditional Mongolian garb milks a yak.

Dairy culture on the Eurasian Steppe

Ancient dental plaque points to the historical significance of dairy culture on the Eurasian Steppe.

by Jonathan Shaw

A drawing of students rebelling in a dining hall.

The much-shrunken class of 1823

The Class of 1823 goes rogue and gets booted.

by Jacob Sweet

Headshot photograph of Ian K. Smith

Profile of novelist and TV doctor Ian K. Smith

Ian K. Smith’s turn toward detective fiction

by Lydialyle Gibson

Illustration of a professor striving to keep up with a fast-walking elderly Hadza woman

Excerpt from “Exercised,” by Daniel E. Lieberman

A biological anthropologist explains why and how exercise works to combat senescence.

by Daniel E. Lieberman

University People

Honored professors, new House heads, and more

Harvard in Allston: new possibilities?

Time to rethink the campus-development agenda?

People perusing books outside at the Boston Book Festival

Boston Book Festival

A literary festival for children and adults

by Nell Porter-Brown

Re-naming Harvard’s Lowell House?

The faculty deans prompt a discussion.

by John S. Rosenberg

Michael Mina

New Test Paradigm Needed for SARS-CoV-2

Michael Mina maintains a new testing regimen could end the COVID-19 pandemic—in three weeks.

by Jonathan Shaw