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Harvard Law dean Martha Minow

An appreciation of Harvard Law dean Martha Minow

by Lincoln Caplan

Learning to Lose

Sharmila Sen on making a life in the humanities. 

by Bailey Trela

Old Food Reduces Lifespan

New evidence strengthens the theory that aging results from molecular damage.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Reporting on the Environment in Trump’s America

What happens when science and the presidential administration are at odds just three weeks in? 

by Oset Babür

Harvard Houghton Library anniversary album

An anniversary overview of treasures through the ages

Harvard women’s basketball has a big weekend

Alumnae weekend helps explain Harvard women’s enduring basketball success.

by David L. Tannenwald

Harvard Magazine puzzle master retires

A longtime contributor hangs up his pencil.

Harvard and other universities' strategies

A comment on how institutions present, and understand, themselves

by John S. Rosenberg

Coeducating a Harvard Club and more

Coeducating the Harvard Club of New York, Robert McNamara redux, and a professor at home on the range

by Primus VI

Chapter and verse quotation-citation correspondence site

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words

Brief life of Henry Knowles Beecher, anesthetist and late-blooming ethicist

Brief life of a late-blooming ethicist: 1904-1976

by Jack El-Hai