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Bronze sculpture of a winged face and torso stands in a lush green garden

Thinking Archaically

The earthly permanence of Romolo Del Deo’s sculpture

by Jacob Sweet

Claudia Goldin, Nobel laureate

News in Brief

Nobel laureate in economics, public-health dean, breaking ground in Allston, and more

Sidewalk chalk, image of a dove of peace crying about lost civilian lives

The Dogs of War

Harvard’s reactions to Hamas’s terrorism and Israel’s response

Greg Stone poses in front of trees

Greg Stone, An Emerging Novelist at 70

Late-life inspiration leads to pulpy noir novel

by Lydialyle Gibson

Image of American Eagle crashing into a whirlpool

Democracy Endangered

American democracy endangered by minority rule

Professor Myisha Eatmon photographed in Harvard's Barker Center

Break Every Chain

How black plaintiffs in the Jim Crow South sought justice

by Max J. Krupnick

Harvard's 2023 Fiscal Year

Harvard sustains a fiscal 2023 operating surplus—and endowment returns turn (modestly) positive.

by John S. Rosenberg

Illustration of two men facing opposite directions, one viewing the world through fully parted curtains, the other through curtains partially opened.

Values and Voting Patterns

Thinking globally versus locally is predictive of political views

A conceptual illustration of a student seated in a classroom facing an imagined image of herself in a different environment with flowers and rocks

Is Pedagogy About Us?

Questioning the intellectual rigor of bringing identity into the classroom

by Isabella Cho

Ruth Simmons as a young graduate

Educational Ascent

Ruth Simmons on her ascent from sharecropper’s daughter to scholar

Against Yale, sophomore quarter- back Jaden Craig turned to the air, completing 20 passes in 33 attempts for 245 yards and two touchdowns.

Back on Top

An Ivy title—dimmed by defeat in the Game

by Dick Friedman

Tom Hyry photographed in Houghton Library

Tom Hyry

What Harvard's special collections librarian has learned from athletics, activism

by Max J. Krupnick