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Climate Change
Universities are among the most creative and powerful forces for shaping the future. At our best, we prepare students to devote their lives to causes larger than themselves. We bring together scholars whose insights help illuminate and address society’s …
Issue: September-October 2019
Seeing Allston Whole
As Harvard pursues ambitious development projects in Allston, residents fear that their neighborhood—which they describe as uniquely hospitable to families, immigrants, and artists—will come to look a lot like Boston’s Seaport district: a sterile …
Class Day Speech by Tim Russert
by Tim Russert, host of Meet the Press So, this is Harvard. Look at all those scholars sitting out there. The greatest gathering of intellects since Thomas Jefferson dined alone. Thank you for inviting me. I guess Ali G. wouldn’t come back. Or you …
Iron and Silk
Half an academic year into his service as dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), William C. Kirby uses his first annual letter to set the priorities that will shape the College and the Graduate School. The letter—disseminated in early …
Issue: March-April 2003
Will Global Democracy Survive?
“Ten years from now , there could be crises that make 2020 look like a garden party,” said Rockefeller professor of Latin American studies and professor of government Steven Levitsky last night. “There could be a fair amount of violence. There could be a …
Scenes from a Tempestuous Spring
Harvard’s spring of 1969, covered at length in this magazine then and recently, was marked by some of the most momentous, divisive political upheaval in the University’s history. That April, student activists protesting the Vietnam War and other crises …
Namwali Serpell’s Novel-In-Progress
During a lively virtual reading on Wednesday afternoon, author Namwali Serpell offered listeners a taste of her newest novel-in-progress. A fiction writer, essayist, and critic whose star has been rapidly rising, Serpell joined Harvard this fall as a …
Saving Money, Oil, and the Climate
The United States is in urgent need of a comprehensive, rational, and—above all—honest policy to guide its energy future, a policy that addresses two key, interrelated objectives: reducing dependence on vulnerable sources of imported oil and reducing …
Issue: March-April 2008
Update: Harvard versus Penn
The escape artists from Cambridge did it again at Philadelphia's Franklin Field on Saturday. With Penn threatening at the Harvard 12-yard line and 10 seconds remaining, senior cornerback Ryan Barnes came up with a pass interception—his third of the …
Crimson in Beijing
Harvard athletes have a long history of Olympic competition, beginning with the first modern games at Athens in 1896 (see “The Unexpected Olympians ,” July-August 1996, page 36). This summer, 10 current and former Crimson athletes turned in memorable …
Issue: November-December 2008
Update: Harvard versus Lehigh
A stunning defensive play was the game-saver in a 27-24 win over Lehigh at the Stadium on October 18. A late drive had brought the visitors to Harvard’s 14-yard line. With a first down and 46 seconds to play, sophomore quarterback J.B. Clark set up to …
Off the Shelf
I’ll Drink to That: Beaujolais and the French Peasant Who Made It the World’s Most Popular Wine , by Rudolph Chelminski ’56 ( Gotham Books, $27.50 ). “Everyone knows Beaujolais, or thinks he does,” writes the author. After reading this saga of the wine …
Issue: November-December 2007
Flexible Movies
“ You never see cartoons where there are bad outcomes,” says Michelle Crames, M.B.A. ’03, founder and CEO of Lean Forward Media in Los Angeles. “But bad outcomes are often the result of bad decisions.” Last year, Crames’s company released its first …
Issue: May-June 2007
Postscript
In its September-October 1996 issue, Harvard Magazine published "The Millenial Class," a selection of admissions essays submitted by six successful applicants to the Harvard College class of 2000. The editors' judgment was doubly flawed--this year, we …
Geoffrey A. Fowler , Caille Millner
An Inclusive “One Harvard”
At a time when the world is so polarized, says tech business leader and entrepreneur Vanessa Liu ’96, J.D. ’03, Harvard’s global and intergenerational connections can help alumni “significantly impact and shape the world.” In fact, she adds, “It’s hard to …
Issue: September-October 2021