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The Rawlsian Revolution
… students and graduates will remember his 1971 work A Theory of Justice, mandatory reading in Bass professor of … to neoliberalism, the loose concept that describes the rise of privatization, austerity, and deregulation all over …
Issue: September-October 2019
“Empires of the Mind”
… In keeping with this Commencement's international theme, President Neil L. Rudenstine's afternoon address … website. We are an American university. Indeed, one of the reasons that students and scholars come to Harvard … for bridging the inevitable gaps that so often arise in international affairs. The final point I want to …
From the Archives: The Secrets of Haiti’s Living Dead
… anthropologist and ethnobotanist Wade Davis ’75, Ph.D. ’86, then a graduate student, went to Haiti at the recommendation of his mentor, Jeffrey professor of biology Richard Evans … imagination. Analysis of the powder produced another surprise. “When I went down to Haiti originally,” says Davis, …
Plumbing the Deep Sea
… Biological Laboratories, biochemist Peter Girguis frowns at the pressure vessel in his hand. The machined titanium cylinder, about the size of a French press, gleams as he works to release the cap, … plumes. Working from a research ship at the East Pacific Rise, he brought the delicate creatures up. “He was one of …
Issue: May-June 2023
The Law of Dissimilars
… Humans have a natural propensity to distrust the “other.” The classic social-psychology experiment in … an advantage in promoting not simply tolerance but liking of other groups? This question has fueled a multilayered … is not the opposite of prejudice. When objective conflicts arise, people are likely to slip back to their adversarial …
Issue: January-February 2006
The Allure of the Bad Boy
… The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American … (Houghton Mifflin, $28), is a delightful group biography of Elizabeth, Mary, and Sophia Peabody, in many ways … a writer, publisher, and translator, the founder of kindergartens in America, and the model for Miss Birdseye …
Issue: May-June 2005
50 Years of Social Studies
… In 1960, the idea that Harvard undergraduates could concentrate in a … science, sociology, history, and philosophy, instead of choosing just one of those disciplines, was … she deemed “intimate ethnography,” which has given rise to studies such as ethnographies of kidney dialysis …
Off the Shelf
… Giuliano da Sangallo and the Ruins of Rome, by Cammy Brothers ’91, Ph.D. ’99 … the tumult accompanying the popular democratic revolutions, rise of industrial capitalism, and decline of institutional …
Issue: May-June 2022
In the Black
… has enabled us to move forward” on priorities such as the new science complex in Allston, renovation of the Fogg Art Museum, and financial aid for lower- and … Shore said, Harvard’s net borrowings will continue to rise, in keeping with the capital plan. Endowment income …
Issue: November-December 2008
Allston Ambitions
… anticipated construction and renovations through 2034. The University owns approximately 358 acres of land in Allston, but the institutional master plan (IMP) … facilities—not the privately developed commercial enterprise research campus and other projects being built on land …
Issue: March-April 2025
Trafficking in Chance
… The dozens of ATM machines lining the entrances to the Mohegan Sun casino … slot displays that allow wagers and blood-alcohol levels to rise together. Slot machines are the profit centers of …
Issue: July-August 2002
Revenge of the Nerds?
… The scene is reminiscent of something you might see at a zoo. Inside the Science Center, passing students are crowding in front of the large glass windows of the Greenhouse Cafe, eager to …
The Dilemma of Choice
… Ahab pursues a great white whale that years earlier bit off his leg. Ahab, says Sean Dorrance Kelly, is on a monomaniacal quest to answer an existential question: Did the “inscrutable” whale act unthinkingly, or with calculated … them) left in modern life occurs, he says, when a crowd rises spontaneously to cheer a great play in a sports arena. …
Issue: May-June 2011
Past the Peak
… Nearly 50 years after declaring their independence, Americans were electrified by the triumphant return of the Marquis de Lafayette, eager to revisit the scenes of … was itself enslaved. The story of the commonwealth’s rise, fall, and subsequent rise again offers a helpful …
Issue: March-April 2008
The Extinction of the Press?
… When America’s Founders drafted the First Amendment, including its protection of a free press as key to self-governance, they could not … necessary for democracy.” “There’s only one private enterprise that is mentioned in the United States Constitution and …
Issue: July-August 2020