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The Society of St. John the Evangelist
… The Society of St. John the Evangelist , a small monastic community of the Episcopal Church, has two locations with open chapels …
Issue: January-February 2012
The Era of Inequality
… Timothy Noah ’80, then of Slate (and now at The New Republic ), set out to document and understand a new, and unsettling, state of affairs that has finally attracted wide attention—in part …
Issue: May-June 2012
Masters of Metal
… "Glory and prosperity" are the first words of a benediction often inscribed on medieval Islamic metalwork, and any …
Issue: May-June 2002
The Oz of Health Insurance Reform
… The man to whom the Obama administration turned to run the … reform—including the insurance mandate now at the center of a Supreme Court maelstrom—is Jonathan Gruber , Ph.D. ’92, a professor of economics at MIT. A profile of Gruber , whose …
The Off-Kilter Economy
… By most measures, the U.S. economy weathered the pandemic recession. But even … growth, for example, that would normally presage a period of prosperity, paired with declining output of goods and … and housing. Less affected are people who own assets, which rise in value during inflationary periods, and homeowners …
Issue: November-December 2022
A Bioethics View of Brain Organoids
… Bioethicist Insoo Hyun has spent a lot of time thinking about brain organoids over the past several years. A frequent collaborator of Paola … their armchairs wouldn’t necessarily come up with.” They arise from the everyday churn of laboratory science, and …
College Admits 7.5 Percent of Early Applicants
… Today , 722 of 9,553 early-action applicants were admitted to the College class of 2027. This 7.5 percent acceptance rate … which lower-income families qualify. African Americans comprised 14.4 percent of the class (up from 13.9 percent last …
Making Schools Work
… I n a taxi bound for the Pierre Hotel on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, Thomas Kane … and deliberate, punctuated by measured pauses. The Gale professor of economics and education is careful to avoid … of data like Legos, filling in gaps, and “finding surprises.” Using federal population surveys, provided at the …
Issue: March-April 2025
“The Instrument of Your Fate”
… The life lesson that grasped my soul was born amid the throes of war: If one does not manage the instrument of his fate, … truth, yet we have not fully embraced the reality. I am surprised to find myself a typical case study for veterans with …
Off the Shelf
… and Warlike Democracies, by William S. Smith (University of Michigan, $70). Harvard, widely known as a liberal … managing director of Catholic University’s Center for the Study of Statesmanship, plumbs the political thought of … promotion of the habit and product, through the rise of activist citizen nonsmokers who waged a fight for …
Issue: November-December 2019
Harvard Slavery Descendants Program: What’s Next?
… A month after the University laid off the staff of the Harvard Slavery Remembrance Program (HSRP), which for …
Repairing a Beating Heart
… If there is a holy grail in robotic surgery, it would be … business that can involve temporarily depriving the heart of oxygen, clamping major vessels, and connecting a … to pull three-dimensional images out of existing ultrasound machines in real time, and into our image-processing …
Issue: May-June 2022
Labs, Size Large
… The northwest science building houses the Center for Brain … and (coming soon) entire collections from the Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ). But the impressive façade, … staircase that connects the first floor to those above and rises from landing to landing without support pillars in …
Issue: November-December 2008
The Brink of Revolution
… How to make sense of the U.S. Supreme Court? “Judicial opinions…can defy easy … nine men and women who make up the Court intrigue and surprise us.… Of course, an effort to understand the Roberts …
Issue: September-October 2014
Spirit of Giving
… The University Campaign, concluded at the end of 1999, … Foundation endowment for a program at the Kennedy School of Government; and the gift for the new Bauer Center for …
Issue: January-February 2002