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“Fear and Anger Are the Essential Ingredients of Injustice”
Civil-rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson , J.D.-M.P.A.’85, LL.D. ‘15, went straight to the point at the start of his remote Harvard Law School (HLS) Class Day speech today. “We’re living at a time when we are seeing profound, unjust inequality,” he said in …
Harvard’s Class Gap
The gap between coastal elites and America’s white working class has been growing for decades, but in the wee hours of November 9, America’s intellectuals discovered that they had been drowned in a tidal wave of anger and frustration. Harvard students may …
Issue: May-June 2017
America the Politically Unequal
Recent events have focused attention on two of the most consequential phenomena of our time: growing economic and political inequality. Although the Occupy Movement of 2011 seems to be petering out, it did draw attention to the tremendous gains made by …
Issue: September-October 2012
Mind Sports Rampant
Master players of chess , bridge, poker, Go, and international draughts convened at Harvard Law School on June 13 to discuss how such “mind sports” might enhance learning in schools and libraries, and even contribute to building civic life in communities …
Financial Aid: Bending the Curve
The College today introduced changes in undergraduate aid—effective next fall, for the entering class of 2016—that reduce support for higher-income families and increase the income level at which students are able to attend Harvard at no cost, and …
Endowment Improvements
The University’s endowment was valued at $27.4 billion as of June 30, the end of fiscal year 2010--up 5.4 percent from $26.0 billion at the end of fiscal 2009--according to Harvard Management Company’s annual report, released on September 9. During the …
Issue: November-December 2010
Academic Freedom and Free Speech
The upheaval on American campuses kindled by the Israel-Hamas war has had extreme consequences: resignations of presidents at leading universities, including Harvard; firings of other administrators; discontentment and disciplining of faculty and …
Issue: September-October 2024
Layoffs Begin
The University announced this morning that it would begin laying off 275 employees and reducing the hours of 40 other employees or limiting them to an academic-year work schedule. Although the total number of layoffs and reductions is relatively modest …
Studying Schooling
In 2006, Thomas Kane went to Joel Klein, chancellor of New York City’s public schools, with some unsettling news: teachers from the New York City Teaching Fellows program (which supplied nearly 30 percent of Klein’s new hires between 2003 and 2005) were …
Issue: January-February 2009
A Conversation with Tracy K. Smith ’94
Tracy K. Smith ’94 is a poet and professor at Princeton who won a Pulitzer Prize in 2012 for her third collection of verse. That book, Life on Mars, dealt with matters of grief and religious faith in the wake of her father's death. Her newest work, …
An Extra Layer of Care
Eric Buck’s life turned upside down in the spring of 2014, after doctors diagnosed the lump in his right buttock as a fast-growing sarcoma. Five weeks of chemotherapy and radiation preceded surgery that left a 15-inch incision and significant muscle loss. …
Issue: March-April 2015
Brevia
Doctor and Diversity Giang T. Nguyen has been appointed executive director of Harvard University Health Services (HUHS), which provides care to students and to faculty and staff members who choose it for their health benefits. A family-medicine …
Issue: November-December 2019
The Sisters McDavitt
Last fall, the Harvard field hockey squad was locked in a scoreless tie with Boston University. Though the teams had similar national rankings (Harvard eighteenth, BU seventeenth) the Crimson dominated play, outshooting the Terriers 17-2 and holding an …
Issue: November-December 2003
A Reischauer Returns
The newest member of the President and Fellows of Harvard College (as the Corporation, the University's executive governing board, is formally known) is a familiar Harvard figure. Robert D. Reischauer, who was elected on October 6, is Harvardian by blood, …
Issue: January-February 2003
Twin Passions
Both these elegant little books on science and religion are by eminent Harvard professors emeriti —much-revered researchers, writers, and educators. Both authors hope their monographs may stimulate some less tired thinking about the disputed relationship …
Issue: May-June 2007