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Justice, On Line

Video stills ©President and Fellows Harvard College ”Justice,” from Sanders Theatre to you: Sandel and engaged students...

Manhood Reconsidered

As a professor at Harvard Business School, Robin J. Ely has had her share of experience with how men (who constitute 80 percent of the...

Ledecky Fellows for the 2007-2008 academic year

Photograph by Jim Harrison Liz Goodwin and Samuel Bjork Harvard Magazine’s Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows for the...

The Glass House

The following text is a sidebar to "Modern and Historic," September-October 2007. The Glass House New Canaan, Connecticut...

Engineering Renewed

Celebrating its own nifty bit of reengineering, the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), elevated from the status of a division of...

The Forgotten Modernist

If there’s one name associated with the reputation of Harvard’s Graduate School of Design (GSD) as the cradle of American modern...

Honorable Forester

Peter Shaw Ashton stepped into his first Asian tropical forest 50 years ago last March. For what he has accomplished in those steamy reaches, he...

by Christopher Reed

The Vernacular

"Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." Betty Vorenberg recalls stumbling over a “Harvard...

Chords from Radius

“Playing chamber music for a white, affluent audience that is experienced in this kind of music doesn’t light my fire nearly as much...

"We Need a Win"

Editor’s note: More people than ever before seem to be seeking the U.S. presidency. Rather than profile alumni who are running for...

by Garrett M. Graff

Slowing Sperm

Many women fantasize about it: a male birth-control pill. After all, most existing contraceptives place sole responsibility for preventing...

by Erin O’Donnell

Arsenic and Old Lead

The Arnold Arboretum anticipated closing a deal last December to sell the Case Estates, its 62.5-acre property (complete with barn and two other...