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The Return of History
… On the day Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, … Hetmanate of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the rise of the modern Ukrainian national project in the 1840s, …
Issue: September-October 2023
AI: The Course
… With the launch of its first overview course on artificial … produced by humans. From the first meeting of Gen Ed 1188: “Rise of the Machines? Understanding and Using Generative AI,” students …
Issue: May-June 2024
Pony Plunges
… Fans heard the clop-clop first. Six times a day, a horse climbed a series of ramps up to a 40-foot platform. The emcee asked for … History of Athletics as Entertainment . “Before the rise of professional sports, there were athletes, but you …
Issue: July-August 2025
Housing in the Climate Crosshairs
… America’s critical housing affordability crisis . The U.S. home price index jumped 46 percent from the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic to last year. Add to that a budding … with unprecedented housing availability and affordability crises like Los Angeles.” Spending on disaster repairs has …
The Mystery of Smell
… In the early weeks of the pandemic, as scientists and … brain is devoted to processing visual information. No surprise, then, he says, that from the beginning, modern … loss. After COVID-19, that number seems almost certain to rise. “The implications of this virus are huge,” Holbrook …
Issue: November-December 2021
The "King of Palindromes"
… word—one that would convey Kay’s questionable character and the conditions under which a yak would engage in adult … Saltveit flipped through the handmade, 200-page dictionary of 29,000 palindromic fragments he’d constructed over the … if yak lived.” With this single sentence, in the ballroom of the New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge, Mark …
Issue: September-October 2021
The “Ring of Truth”
… If the audience decides to clap, R.J. Tarrant was telling one of the student Commencement speakers last week, during their … became untenable as the number of applications continued to rise. This year, the committee received submissions from 130 …
The “Toxicity of Low Expectations”
… At a time when less than 50 percent of Americans grow up to earn more than their parents, how can higher education help move the … skill set, your job is less likely to be replaced by machines and will be a path to better mobility.” The …
The Future of Teaching
… two and a half pandemic semesters, instruction throughout the University first pivoted online, and then, after the summer of 2020, evolved into more sophisticated, engaging forms of Zoom-based teaching and some hybrid classes at the …
Issue: July-August 2021
Greenland’s Fingerprint in Rising Seas
… Scientists who study the impact of melting glaciers and ice sheets have for the … data can be used to improve predictions of global sea-level rise, and help identify (or at least constrain) regional …
These Student Speakers Have History to Share
… Every year , three student speakers address the Commencement crowd in Tercentenary Theatre: the student “parts” that are an essential feature of Harvard’s graduation traditions. Here Harvard Magazine … that her speech, “Our Humanity,” will show that “humanity rises and falls together.” She continues, “In a very divided …
Why Americans Love to Hate Harvard
… from 1971 to 1991 and again on an interim basis during the 2006-2007 academic year, faced the challenge of helping the University recover from the shattering … from a decade of stagflation, the stock market started to rise, and the endowments of elite universities began a sharp …
Issue: March-April 2024
The End of Spontaneity
… Despite its well-constructed façade of serenity—the muted light streaming through yellow curtains, the … up and spin me around so that we’re both laughing with surprise and childish glee. And so Houseparty has been …
The Changing of the (Financial) Guard
… a major transition in Harvard’s senior financial personnel; their record and the context for the changes are discussed … below. Finnegan remains a Corporation member, and a member of the board of directors of Harvard Management Company (where the …
Behind the Curtain of A.R.T.’s “Evita”
… ballgown suspends in midair, center stage above a field of white flowers at the American Repertory Theater’s (A.R.T) revival of the … of a complex political figure who had an extraordinary rise and an extraordinary fall—and I would add the word …