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“The Path of Most Resistance”
… activist Cecile Richards’s Convocation speech at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH) on Wednesday could not have been … inaction on gun violence, as urgent public-health crises. “Since I’ve left Planned Parenthood, I’ve joined …
Art of the Future?
… The Fogg and Busch-Reisinger Museums at 32 Quincy Street … exhibition hinting at the design approach unfolding in the offices of project architect Renzo Piano. All but the original 1927 …
Issue: May-June 2008
Behind the Scenes: The Power of Human Connection
… A couple of years ago, a friend of mine—like me, a writer and reporter , and also like me a … very true. People like us, he said, go into journalism for the writing , only to discover that it’s the reporting …
The Dark Side of Boston
… evening, Boston’s North End is buzzing. Done with tours of Old North Church or the Paul Revere House, or just arriving for a fun night out, … or head to Copp’s Hill Terrace for romantic views of Boston Harbor. The city’s oldest neighborhood wasn’t …
Issue: September-October 2018
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
That Championship Season
… The Harvard Rugby Football Club team is not like any other … seasonal pig roasts, a tribal retreat evoking both the Lord of the Flies and Animal House . Self-governed, they operate with a kind of punk-rock anarchistic do-it-yourself edginess that even …
Events of the Week
… The commencement festivities conclude with addresses by … JUNE 5 50th Reunion Symposium, at 1:30. "A Half Century of Change: Race, Admissions, and the Harvard Community," … Jones, and John Simon; moderated by Adams University Professor emeritus Bernard Bailyn. Sanders Theatre. Top …
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
Richard P. Lifton Elected to Harvard Corporation
… RICHARD P. Lifton , president of The Rockefeller University since 2016, will become a member … of mutations in 20 genes that cause blood pressure to rise or fall to extremes by altering renal salt …
A Democracy of Opportunity
… for a second term as president by pressing to rebuild the United States as “a democracy of opportunity.” At the Democratic National Convention, FDR … that is becoming new again. Before the twentieth-century rise of economics as a discipline, thinkers as varied as …
Issue: January-February 2022
The Long-term-care Puzzle
… thinking about it. But at some point, it touches nearly all of us. Demand for long-term care (LTC) — the medical and personal services people receive when … they're no longer able to care for themselves — is on the rise. Already, 60 to 70 percent of Americans who live to age …
Issue: July-August 2004
Graduate School of Design Class Day Speaker Danielle S. Allen
… Conant University professor Danielle S. Allen grew up in a large, “politically committed” extended family in 1970s Southern California. “Almost as if with mother’s milk,” she … A massive increase in income and wealth inequality and rise in incarceration rates, an acceleration of the climate …
The Way of the Long Strings
… To be a virtuoso musician and a college student at the same time is somewhat like forcing two people into one … —skills that develop through three or four hours of practice every evening. Photograph by Stu Rosner Then, that little matter of studying. Carter, a psychology concentrator, does her …
Issue: March-April 2003
“Global Whitemanism”
… a dark book about a dark subject. Walter Johnson burst onto the historical scene with the 1999 publication of his influential Soul by Soul , which positioned the slave … cotton prices that might drop, shipping costs that might rise, credit that might evaporate, paper money that might be …
Issue: September-October 2013
In the Wake of Tragedy
… After the catastrophic March 11 earthquake and subsequent tsunami … word that they were all right, and share their accounts of the disaster and its aftermath. Several survivors shared … firsthand accounts; on March 19 (the most recent entry as of this writing), Yukari Fujita, M.T.S. ’96, posted an …