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Le Professeur
September 14, 2015: Buttenwieser University Professor emeritus Stanley Hoffmann, a renowned scholar of international relations, American foreign policy, and French and European politics who spent his early teens hiding from the Gestapo in Vichy France, …
Issue: July-August 2007
Deep into Sleep
Not long ago, a psychiatrist in private practice telephoned associate professor of psychiatry Robert Stickgold, a cognitive neuroscientist specializing in sleep research. He asked whether Stickgold knew of any reason not to prescribe modafinil, a new …
Issue: July-August 2005
The Historian-Autobiographers
Should Harvard be grateful to Henry Adams for establishing a tradition of Harvard-trained historians who have written about their own lives, including their experiences as students and faculty members at Harvard? The Education of Henry Adams has become a …
Issue: November-December 2004
Marcyliena Morgan: How Has Harvard Cultivated Hiphop?
What does hiphop culture—rap music, break dancing, and graffiti—have to do with Harvard? In this episode, Monrad professor of social sciences Marcyliena Morgan explains that hiphop began with the children of people who marched in the civil-rights …
Edward Glaeser: Should We All Be Living in Cities?
Cities are an integral part of Earth’s future: by 2050, 68 percent of the world’s population will be living in an urban area. Solutions to social problems , from climate change to poverty , will therefore be tied to the fates of cities. In this …
Staci Gruber: How Does Marijuana Affect the Brain?
WEED, ganja , pot, flower, dope, grass, bud: marijuana has many names, but an even greater number of chemical constituents, from THC, the psychoactive component, to cannabidiols such as CBD, often touted for its therapeutic potential. In this episode, …
Tying Knots
On a dumping ground along a dirt road in Santiago's Renca municipality, Harvard-affiliated planners work to create decent housing for 160 struggling families. In the center of Chile's sprawling capital city, students at the College are in the front ranks …
Issue: May-June 2004
Cambridge 02138
THE POWER OF EXERCISE "The Deadliest Sin," by Jonathan Shaw (March-April, page 36), is the first article that I have seen to discuss all the different research which ties exercise (from walking to resistance training to distance running) to improved …
Issue: May-June 2004
From the Archives: The Market-Model University
More than two decades ago—before the Great Recession caused states to slash funding for public universities (sending tuition bills soaring); before the gold rush into social media lured a generation of students into computer science and engineering; …
The Political Solicitor General
The most political case of the indelibly political Supreme Court term that ended in June was about the travel ban President Donald J. Trump imposed last September. It banned almost all travel to the United States from seven countries where more than 135 …
Issue: September-October 2018
The Legal Olympian
Cass Sunstein ’75, J.D. ’78, has been regarded as one of the country’s most influential and adventurous legal scholars for a generation. His scholarly articles have been cited more often than those of any of his peers ever since he was a young professor. …
Issue: January-February 2015
Spotlight Travel
New England has a variety of State Parks that make for perfect day trips. Here are some ideas to consider for a summer stop. Gillette Castle State Park 67 River Road East Haddam, CT 06423 860-526-2336 Website It looks like a medieval fortress, but a step …
Tiananmen Plus Twenty-five
On the night of June 3, 1989, and into the morning hours, tens of thousands of People’s Liberation Army (PLA) troops, armed with automatic rifles and backed by tanks, converged on central Beijing, opening fire where their progress was blocked, clearing …
Issue: July-August 2014
Maya Sen: Have U.S. Courts Become Political Prizes?
If judges truly are impartial arbiters of justice , why do politicians fight over who will be appointed to the bench? Are the courts actually a political prize? And are judges really akin to umpires, just calling “balls and strikes”? How does the …
Larry 29
The sun shone brightly on Harvard and Lawrence S. Bacow on Friday, October 5, as Harvard inaugurated its twenty-ninth president. He will need to tap that solar energy, and other sources, like the support from an appreciative Tercentenary Theatre crowd, to …
Issue: November-December 2018