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Can perfect equality exist?

Eric Nelson says John Rawls led modern philosophy astray.

by John A. Griffin

Bow Street’s festive courtyard lit up at night.

In Somerville, Bow Market’s unique vibe

Somerville’s Bow Market makes its mark.

by Nell Porter-Brown

Painting of Amos A. Lawrence, 1887, by Eastman Johnson.

Expansive CVs, and extracurricular insights

Expansive CVs, and extracurricular insights

by Primus VI

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Recent books with Harvard connections

Recent books with Harvard connections

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Science historian Sarah Richardson profiled by Bennett McIntosh

Historian and philosopher Sarah Richardson interrogates the science of sex and gender.

by Bennett McIntosh

Harvard College admissions process upheld

The College’s admissions office does not discriminate against Asian-Americans, a federal judge ruled on October 1.

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Photograph of Lawrence S. Bacow

The View from Mass Hall

President Bacow describes the potential for Harvard’s new Allston campus to benefit both gown and town.

by Lawrence S. Bacow

A street crowd of black men and women, all dressed in white, either playing or responding to the playing of dozens of trombones

Frank Stewart’s jazz photography

“The Sound of My Soul: Frank Stewart’s Life in Jazz,” at Harvard

by Nell Porter-Brown

2019 Miller-Hunn Award recipients

Honoring outstanding alumni interviewers for the College

Photograph of Jimmy Hoffa and Chuckie O’Brien near the federal courthouse, March 1, 1964

Excerpt from Jack Goldsmith, “In Hoffa’s Shadow”

A new look at “one of the greatest unsolved crimes in American history”

Photograph of Giang T. Nguyen

New HUHS director, public-service pair, social-club-sanctions lawsuit, and more

New HUHS director, public-service pair, social-club-sanctions lawsuit, and more

A judge presides over an urban landscape from atop a tall building

Should “acting locally” become a legal mandate?

In combatting climate change, will courts hold that the general welfare trumps local sovereignty?

by Cherone Duggan