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Things Fell Apart
… Nicholas Lemann ’76— past dean of Columbia Journalism School, New Yorker staff writer —has … (standardized testing, selective admissions, etc., in The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy … and How It Changed America ). In Transaction Man: The Rise of the Deal and the Decline of the American Dream …
Issue: September-October 2019
The High Noon of the Print Culture
… "Of all childhood pastimes, reading was my passion," writes historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. '38, Jf '43, in the first volume of his memoirs, A Life in the Twentieth Century: Innocent …
The Art of Lighting and Sound Design
… The Act One finale of In the Heights is the stuff of theater technicians’ dreams andnightmares. After a … A Roman candle sound soars while a corresponding pink light rises over the actors’ faces. Everything is perfectly, …
Issue: January-February 2023
“You Can Correct the Mistakes of My Generation”
… Drawing on his own success in brokering a peace treaty with the guerilla army FARC, ending five decades of civil war, former president of Colombia and Nobel … anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela, saying “We must ‘rise above the parochial concepts of nation, race, and …
The Mirage of Knowledge
… ignorance and unreason in American public discourse—and then he watched it come to life all around him, in ways … be treated as equally serious. And they rejected professional know-how, he says, with such anger . That shook … is bone-deep in the American character, as much a part of the nation’s origin story as the founders’ Enlightenment …
Issue: March-April 2018
"The Doctor's Song"
… During the past several weeks, as the COVID-19 pandemic swept … Rafael Campo has been writing poems to help make sense of the crisis. Below is a draft of one still in process, but … agreed to share. THE DOCTOR’S SONG The ventilator’s rise and fall. The ambulance’s siren call. The yellow gown’s …
“Fear and Anger Are the Essential Ingredients of Injustice”
… 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 … to have to change narratives.” He talked about the dramatic rise of mass incarceration in the United States—”Our prison …
What Can Be Used to Treat COVID-19?
… who runs a two-hour-and-thirty-minute marathon changing their sneakers and all of a sudden running a two-hour marathon,” said Harvard … differently.” As new variants emerge and cases rise around the country (particularly in the Northeast), …
Assaulting the Ramparts
… Arbuckle professor of business administration Rosabeth Moss Kanter, … and lead organizations, large and small. She also created the Advanced Leadership Initiative, which brings executives … window shows a weapon. Iron gates drop, and drawbridges rise to make it impossible to cross the moat. Legions of …
Issue: January-February 2020
Crimson Queens of the Rink
… The women’s hockey team ended January with a perfect 14-0 … have consistently frosted their opponents with devasting offensive flurries and a defense that has allowed just 0.83 … sole loss came against the UNH Wildcats, alma mater of veteran Crimson head coach Katey Stone, on December 14. …
Issue: March-April 2008
Alumni Cheer on Harvard
… The 2025 rendition of Harvard Alumni Day, which brought … for President Alan M. Garber, who has become the face of Harvard’s fight with the federal government. And while … choral groups serenaded the crowd with “Radcliffe, Now We Rise to Greet Thee.” “No institution is without flaws” A …
Yesterday's News
… two freshmen propose inserting a huge crossbar between the two chimneys of the Boston Elevated Railway’s powerhouse, near the … Central Kitchen has installed automatic milk-pouring machines in four House dining halls, the Bulletin’ s …
Issue: January-February 2021
The Way of the Critic
… his byline, A.O. Scott) reviewed a big Hollywood release, The Avengers . He praised some aspects of the movie and bemoaned others, specifically “its … director said. “It was overrated.” “The thing that has surprised me is how much freedom there is with this job,” Scott …
Issue: November-December 2019
Off the Shelf
… Reason and Politics: The Nature of Political Phenomena, by Mark Blitz ’66, Ph.D. … Flowers, also featured in the untold story of the Colossus machines, apparently the world’s first digital electronic …
Issue: September-October 2021
Emily Dickinson—Dashed
… P rofessional funny person Alexandra Petri ’10, who lightens up the pages of The Washington Post (and occasionally these … is just a standard thing we tell everyone to do with their machines and should not be a problem, Emily! Emily: I shall …
Issue: March-April 2023