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Bryan Stevenson on the Shadow of White Supremacy
… The audience could sense where the story was going almost as … been available only to whites. A swim they’d been dreaming of for years. As Stevenson, J.D.-M.P.A.’85, LL.D. ’15 , kept talking, an electricity of unease began to intensify among the listeners packed into …
Taking Care of Your Roots
… Our New England winter is finally a memory. As the weather warms up, it’s the ideal time to showcase your … he recommends completing due diligence: Obtain a list of references that includes your painter’s earliest clients. … any health issues should become obvious if they arise,” he says. Photograph courtesy of Abby Shepard To …
Issue: March-April 2023
The Science of History
… In his 1998 book Consilience, Pellegrino University Professor emeritus Edward O. Wilson dreamed of a time when the boundaries between sciences and humanities would fade …
Issue: March-April 2016
The Entrepreneurs of Ideas
… During the final week of October, three academic units unveiled … to gun violence and suicide); poverty and humanitarian crises (preventable deaths and injuries across the globe); …
Issue: January-February 2014
"Producers of Doubt"
… and conscience. We are meant to be producers not just of knowledge but of doubt—of understanding rooted in skepticism and constant questioning, not in the unchallenged sway of accepted wisdom. More than perhaps …
Issue: July-August 2009
Dementias Linked to Air Pollution
… Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, and other dementias are linked to air pollution, new research … adding neurological degeneration to the growing list of effects attributable to fine particles . A study of 63 … … 223 … Hospitalizations for neurological disease rise with increases in fine particle pollution. … …
“Listening will be the hardest part”
… Let me introduce you to a couple of my ghosts. As I stand here, I think of my two grandfathers—Lawrence Crowder and Robert Styles. Lawrence was … which pervades this place, and which can make us each rise to the call of our ghosts. See also: Full text For me, …
Issue: July-August 2007
Andy Borowitz Loosens Up the Library of America
… up with a more serious (and worthy) mission statement than The Library of America's: The Library of America was founded in 1979 to … in 1982. Among those who conceived of this publishing enterprise was Thomas professor of English and American literature …
The Lost Museum
… Lasser was searching in Harvard’s archives for clues to the whereabouts of a portrait by John Singleton Copley, missing since the … continues, an approach akin to the art historians’ has arisen under the catchall term of “new materialism.” …
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Issue: May-June 2017
Garrett Graff '03 Appointed Editor of The Washingtonian
… Garrett M. Graff '03, a former Ledecky Undergraduate Fellow of Harvard Magazine , has been appointed editor of The Washingtonian --only the third individual to hold …
True Lies
… Only the ampersand is still visible; Benjamin Franklin’s thick … Thomas Jefferson, having finished tinkering with his draft of the declaration, asked Franklin to review it. The elder … later the first federal immigration laws revealed how the rise of nativism constricted the notion of political …
Issue: September-October 2018
The Inflorescence of a Lily
… How do the petals of the white Asiatic lily form and unfurl to become a flaring trumpet? This is the sort of question most people never even think to ask—and if they …
“The Region of Ideas and Invention”
… During his Commencement Day address to the senior class in 2001, the Reverend Peter Gomes shared a … if there is more to life than unlocking the mysteries of the universe.” That same year, a team of researchers from Harvard, Stanford, Caltech, and the …
Issue: May-June 2014
News In Brief
… New Fellows on the Corporation Richard P. Lifton, president of The … 1. Lifton succeeds Shirley M. Tilghman, president emerita of Princeton and a distinguished molecular biologist who …
Issue: July-August 2025
The Emotions of Election Day
… Partisan loyalty is an important part of personal identity for many Americans, who hold on to their fidelity to true-blue Democrats or deep-red … Presidential Election ”—the new paper from HKS assistant professor of public policy Todd Rogers , Lamar Pierce of …