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A New Story of Suffrage
… If the women’s suffrage movement took place today, what would … to spread the word about their cause. Today’s world of online activism can feel deprived of that vitality—which … during this period, including industrialization and the rise of wage labor, might provide a richer explanation for …
Issue: May-June 2019
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 Flatland of Photography
… Photographs and comment by Rosamond Wolff Purcell The densely striped Javan tiger, Panthera tigris sondaica, … in the museum, the sine qua non in the metamorphosis of the animals. Layers of organic matter have been stripped away, leaving all flesh …
“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 …
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
Yesterday's News
… Bonaparte, A.B. 1899, declines an invitation to ascend the Albanian throne. “Sometimes Harvard indifference is … too far,” comment Bulletin editors. 1927 At a Harvard Club of Boston colloquium titled “What is the Sub-Freshman … and is about to be extended to laundry and vending machines in all undergraduate dorms and Houses. … From the …
Issue: January-February 2017
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 …
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
Fond Farewell
… In 1966, John T. Bethell ’54 became the editor of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin … in 1995, I was privileged to inherit a much larger enterprise committed to serving an engaged readership of …
Issue: May-June 2025
“The Wise Person Learns from All People”
… seniors, President Lawrence S. Bacow recalled that in the fall of 2019, he had told this class at their freshman convocation that “Anyone who is thinking of the next four years as a series of stepping stones to a …
The Language of Emotion
… feeling “angry” or “distressed” or “dejected,” what do they really mean? Psychologists vigorously debate whether … concepts mean, and how people understand them, is part of Nook’s work with Leah Somerville, an associate professor … as a function of age, “was almost a complete surprise to us,” Somerville says. Nook had expected …
Issue: July-August 2018
Medicine in the Middle of Nowhere
… There was still some light in the sky that evening after … shuffling over to find a spot near the fire. The heat of the day had faded only slightly. Still, they were … of you is important. In the wilderness, away from X-ray machines and MRIs and blood-chemistry workups, the patient’s …
Issue: November-December 2017
Flavors of Latin America & the Caribbean
… So you have come to Latin America? Welcome to the land of some of the best food in the world! Although rice and beans are …
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
The Federal Fisc
… L ONG BEFORE the presidential primaries, or a paralyzing pandemic, … by the national elections, that mattered to the future of the country—and that would probably be addressed … terms of health value received for dollars spent, may surprise you. It has certainly proven resistant to political …
Karen Dynan , Douglas Elmendorf
Issue: May-June 2020