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A Walk through History, with Justice Ginsburg as Guide
Case by case , Ruth Bader Ginsburg, L ’59, has chipped away at laws that have disadvantaged women and reinforced notions of men as breadwinners and women as dependents: first by arguing cases before the Supreme Court as an attorney for the American Civil …
Big D
Arctic conditions prevailed at Harvard Stadium on November 22, and so did the home team. With a titanic defensive performance, Harvard shut out Yale, 10-0, topping off a 9-1 season and securing a share of the Ivy League championship. Harvard won the Ivy …
Issue: January-February 2009
Financial Crisis, Faculty Perspectives: Part 2
On the afternoon of September 25, President Drew Faust hosted a discussion on "Understanding the Crisis in the Markets: A Panel of Harvard Experts," before a full house in Sanders Theatre and a webcast audience. (An archive of the webcast is available …
Race in a Genetic World
“I am an African American,” says Duana Fullwiley, “but in parts of Africa, I am white.” To do fieldwork as a medical anthropologist in Senegal, she says, “I take a plane to France, a seven- to eight-hour ride. My race changes as I cross the Atlantic. …
Issue: May-June 2008
David Hemenway: Who Can Solve America’s Gun Problem?
Mass murders committed with firearms are becoming more frequent in the United States. And the total number of gun deaths, a majority by suicide, is now on par with those caused by automobile accidents. None of this has broken the political gridlock …
A Yukon Life
An Essay on Eric Eric Hegsted ’73 lived in Yukon Territory for four decades, until his death in a snowmobile accident in 2019. Though urged to write publishable essays on his experiences there, he wanted to avoid the temptation of tinkering with his life …
Issue: September-October 2021
“The Excitement of Science”
In the fall of 2003, Juliet Girard ’07 arrived at Harvard with first-rate scientific ambitions and a second-rate education. She had grown up in Jersey City and taken classes at a large public high school—it was “pretty bad,” she says—before …
Issue: July-August 2006
Art Museums Launch Renaissance
The rebirthing of the Harvard University Art Museums is announced. After months of strategic planning, and a wide-ranging search for real estate, the staff of the museums is bracing for work that will solve alarming infrastructure problems, daringly …
Issue: March-April 2006
Paradigm Shift
From the dawn of the twenty-first century until last fall, the football squads of Pennsylvania and Harvard ruled the Ivy League roost. Harvard earned league championships with an undefeated season in 2001 and another in 2004; Penn beat out the Crimson for …
Issue: January-February 2006
Engineering Equity
The reports of the Task Force on Women Faculty (WF) and the Task Force on Women in Science and Engineering (WISE), released on May 16, share a common introduction: “In spite of more than three decades of concern, Harvard has made only limited progress in …
Issue: July-August 2005
Medicare Solutions and Problems
The addition of prescription-drug coverage to Medicare is the first substantial expansion of benefits since the program was enacted nearly 40 years ago. Here I examine this new benefit through the eyes of Medicare beneficiaries and then through the eyes …
Issue: May-June 2004
The Prankster’s Secret
Thayer. 2 a.m. Six freshmen, clad in muted grays, stocking-caps, and ski-masks, review, for the umpteenth time, their plot. Lock-pick kit? Check. Map? Check. Camera? Frantically, one of the conspirators searches his seemingly countless overcoat pockets. …
Issue: March-April 2004
The Deficit Danger
At the time of the last presidential election campaign, four years ago, the government was running a sizable budget surplus. That surplus, then-Governor Bush argued, belonged to the taxpayers, and they should get it back. When critics objected that a tax …
Issue: January-February 2004
Recruiting vs. Rights
The weeks leading up to Thanksgiving were especially busy for Harvard bloggers. Robert John Bennett '68, who's writing a novel on-line, posted chapters 4 through 12 of Part V ("Harvard—The Fourth Year") on his blog—short for Weblog, or on-line …
Issue: January-February 2004
Creating Community, On-line and Off
The weeks leading up to Thanksgiving were especially busy for Harvard bloggers. Robert John Bennett '68, who's writing a novel on-line, posted chapters 4 through 12 of Part V ("Harvard—The Fourth Year") on his blog—short for Weblog, or on-line …
Issue: January-February 2004