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Revisiting Angela Davis
… 2018 that Radcliffe’s Schlesinger Library had acquired the papers of radical activist and academic Angela Davis, an icon since … campus was more thrilled than Elizabeth Hinton. “She’s one of the most important figures of the twentieth century, and …
Issue: September-October 2019
An Extraordinary Season
… Regardless of your distance from greater Boston, you likely know that Harvard slogged through a semester of record-breaking—and patience-testing—winter weather. The type of meteorological event immortalized by Ralph …
Issue: May-June 2015
Art-Making in Allston
… “Artists, of course , need a room of our own,” Claire Chase , a flutist and professor of the practice of music, was saying to the audience gathered … new home will be built across the street; the 36-acre enterprise research campus is planned for nearby . Meanwhile, the …
Understanding Terrorism
… Beyond the emotional reactions necessarily provoked by the terrorist attacks of September 11 and subsequent anthrax-tainted mailings, the … and deter other threats--and defuse the forces that give rise to terrorist groups and acts? Ever since September 11, …
Issue: January-February 2002
Education and Opportunity
… The Supreme Court seemed to close a long, fraught chapter in … public schools for blacks and for whites. In Brown v. Board of Education , by a vote of 9-0, the justices called for an absolute end to a …
Issue: September-October 2013
Again, A Dangerous Art
… It may be hard to believe , reading the small epiphanies and self-flattering revelations that … are standard in contemporary American poetry, but for much of the twentieth century poetry was a dangerous art. When … utterly unchallenging—but its willingness to confront areas of experience that we are more comfortable ignoring. No poet …
Issue: November-December 2009
Two Momentous Faculty Retirements
… On Tuesday afternoon , two stalwarts of the Harvard faculty gave the last lectures of their careers: … more raucous celebration, which had been organized as a surprise. Five years after he officially retired, Lewis had …
Global Health Aims HIGH
… After a year of consulting with fellow faculty members, the steering committee of the newly named Harvard Initiative for Global Health …
Issue: January-February 2005
A “Scholar’s Scholar”
… Claudine Gay arrived in Cambridge in the fall of 1992 as a first-year graduate student, lugging … Voting Rights Act, the number of black officeholders had risen dramatically, giving political scientists plenty of …
Issue: September-October 2023
Humanizing Finance
… tradition, anchored in its general-management unit, of drawing on the humanities to illuminate problems in capitalism (see “ Questions of Character ,” July-August 2006). Now Mizuho Financial …
Issue: May-June 2017
Scott Cook to Address HBS Graduating Class
… The founder of Intuit Inc. —maker of finance software products including TurboTax, Quickbooks, … on Wednesday, May 27. Scott Cook, M.B.A. ’76, began the company in 1983 together with Tom Proulx (then a …
Royal Digits
… How did the Historical Collection in Radiology at the Countway Library of Medicine come to include the x-rays shown here of a man with a cufflink and of a woman with three rings and …
Issue: January-February 2004
What Books Are For
… The Radcliffe Institute was filled to capacity on October … publishers, writers, and marketers. What brought hundreds of people with diverse and sometimes disparate interests and … not their end, but rather their future. In fact, one of the goals of the Radcliffe Institute’s two-day conference …
Harvard Headlines: Blumenthal's Military Service, Varmus Named to Cancer Post, Harvard Student Accused of Fraud
… One of the major national news stories this week involves … general Richard Blumenthal ’67 about his military service. The New York Times reported Monday that Blumenthal had never … support." The Times article included several other examples of misleading comments from Blumenthal, who is running for …
Off the Shelf
… The Instability of Truth: Brainwashing, Mind Control, and Hyper-Persuasion, by Rebecca Lemov, professor of the history of science (W.W. Norton, $32.99). “Brainwashing …
Issue: May-June 2025