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The Financial Cost of Feeling
… In 1890, Harvard psychology professor William James sought to redefine the “self,” which, he wrote in The Principles of Psychology , includes not only our bodies and “psychic …
Issue: November-December 2008
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
New Members of Harvard Board of Overseers and Elected Directors of HAA
… The newly elected members of the Harvard Board of Overseers and elected directors of the …
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
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
The Phenomenon of Parenting
… Two new parenting memoirs, Bad Mother by Ayelet Waldman, J.D. ’91, and Home Game by Michael Lewis, have been getting lots of press. In the June 29 New Yorker , Jill Lepore offers a fresh take rooted in the American past . The …
The Intoxication of Celebrity
… Nearly a quarter-century has passed since the death of Leonard Bernstein ’39, D.Mus. ’67 , yet his … continue to work their charms. Call it the afterlife of the media age. Bernstein’s epic performances of …
Issue: May-June 2014
Mapping the Amazon
… width:407] Learn about the adventures of ethnobotanist Mark Plotkin ABE ’79 as he retraces the footsteps of explorer Alexander Hamilton Rice, founder of Harvard’s …
Off the Shelf
… This learned, brilliantly written account explains how the European avant-garde came to captivate the American elite—as now embodied in that “hegemonic empire of art and money,” the Museum of Modern Art in New York, a … “10 dangerous trends” from “the mother of all debt crises” and the demographic time bomb (aging) to the “coming …
Issue: November-December 2022
“Amazement at the Physicality of Things”
… concentrator, served as an undergraduate fellow during the preparations for the Houghton Library’s seventy-fifth … Until the 1990s, Houghton Library’s outer doors were made of steel. They made the building feel like Harvard’s Fort … library was, then, a place where undergraduates did not often tread. I entered Houghton for the first time on a …
“The Best Day of the Year”
… The ritual of Harvard’s Commencement exercises has remained … this as well as Jacqueline A. O’Neill, who has attended the annual event for more than 30 years and now, as … over the morning program. As Harvard’s chief protocol officer, O’Neill oversees care of the honorands (and all …
Issue: May-June 2011
Hammonds Named Dean of the College
… Evelynn M. Hammonds, the senior vice provost for faculty development and diversity, will be the next dean of Harvard College, the University announced today. Hammonds, who is Rosenkrantz professor of the history of science and of African and African …
Pillars of the Economy
… Boston-area research universities reported jointly on their collective size, stability, and importance to the metropolitan economy. At a Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce briefing on March 11, Harvard, Boston College, … use of academic discoveries and the birth of new enterprises. Engines of Economic Growth also examines the …
Issue: May-June 2003
The Price of Slavery
… Several high-profile lawsuits filed recently in this country are seeking redress for slavery and other racial wrongs, focusing national attention on the … were much less likely to support an apology. What most surprises Dawson is the hostility he and other academics …
Issue: May-June 2003
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 …