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Could College Be Free?
G etting ahead— or getting by—is increasingly difficult in the United States without a college degree. The demand for college education is at an all-time high, but so is the price tag. David Deming—professor of public policy at the Kennedy School and …
Issue: January-February 2020
Reforming the Electoral College
Reed Hundt, the former chairman of the United States Federal Communications Commission and current chairman of Making Every Vote Count , jokes that he has a unique boast. He went to high school and law school with the only two people alive today who …
Mount Laurel and Climate Change
“The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying, ‘This is mine,’ and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.” So argued Jean-Jacques Rousseau in 1754. And so bemoans anyone who …
Issue: November-December 2019
Hello from Havana
President Raúl Castro’s principal contribution thus far to the lives of ordinary Cubans has been that television soap operas now start on time. He often reminds his fellow citizens of this seemingly impossible accomplishment, after decades during which …
Issue: July-August 2009
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Affordable College Costs In “ Reopening the Doors to College ” (March-April, page 24), Theda Skocpol and Suzanne Mettler propose that the federal government help pay college costs. Yes, college keeps costing more. At the University of Texas, instruction …
Issue: May-June 2009
Up Next: The Harvard Center for Gastrophysics?
Ferran Adrià didn't even need to demonstrate anything to get oohs and ahhs from his audience. During the world-renowned Catalan chef's speech in a Harvard lecture hall last week, videos of his playful, experimental cooking techniques sufficed. "Caviar" …
Making It
From European spices and fine French fare to free-range beef and elderberry wine, Harvard alumni throughout New England are asserting their entrepreneurial rights to create delicious things to eat. Their businesses cater to those who like to know where …
Issue: November-December 2006
Jerrold Rosenbaum: Are Psychedelics an Effective Treatment for Mood Disorders?
Are psychedelics an effective treatment for mood disorders? Jerrold Rosenbaum, director of Massachusetts General Hospital’s Center for the Neuroscience of Psychedelics, discusses the potential of using psychedelics, such as MDMA and magic mushrooms, …
Brevia
Photograph by Jim Harrison Sit-ins = Suspension On February 28, President Lawrence H. Summers announced a new interpretation of the University's "Statement on Rights and Responsibilities," adopted in 1970 after the student occupation of University Hall in …
Issue: May-June 2002
Failure to Finish
A t approximately 4:05 p.m. on November 2, the 2019 Harvard football season began unraveling. Until that moment, the campaign was proceeding in the style to which coach Tim Murphy’s teams had been accustomed for two decades. With six seconds remaining in …
Issue: January-February 2020
The Egalitarian
At the moment , no book is more visible or abundant at the gift shop of the National Archives in Washington, D.C., where more than a million visitors a year come to view the earliest copies of America’s founding documents, than Our Declaration —the most …
Issue: May-June 2016
A New Code of Conduct: Hacking Gender in Tech
Hackers hack for five main reasons, according to Parisa Tabriz, Google’s official “Security Princess”: They want security (in software). They enjoy the challenge (of breaking “unbreakable” defenses). They have something to say (and, perhaps, a point to …
From Law Books to Cookbooks
For her first vegan cookbook, published in 2019, Nisha Vora, J.D. ’12, had five and a half months to develop, test, and photograph all the recipes. After she cultivated a following on the vegan cooking blog Rainbow Plant Life , Penguin, Random House …
Issue: September-October 2024
A Family Farm
Three weeks before calving season at Keewaydin Ranch, two ranch hands yell and swat at the cows—“Hey! C’mon. Git. Git in there!”—ushering them out of a corral and into a squeeze shoot. The metal compartment holds the 1,200-pound creatures still enough for …
Issue: July-August 2018
The Undergraduate: Dear Younger Self
Since I was very young, I’ve routinely wished that my future self could give me advice. Despite having some doubts about how stable selves are over time, it’s something that I still wish for, from time to time—mostly when I’m anxious, upset, bored, or …
Issue: September-October 2013