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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 …
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
In Defense of Liberal Arts
… I didn’t fully realize the value of a liberal arts education until I was removed … and energy policy. “I think I would have been very surprised in freshman year of college if you told me that that’s …
Issue: September-October 2023
“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
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 …
Arctic Meltdown Turns Up the Heat
… At the Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied … She notes that the number of fires in the region have risen between 2015 and 2017, and the rise in temperature contributes to a dry climate that is …
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 …
The Making of the Cake
… Perhaps the most talked-about feature of Harvard's 375th anniversary … Boston's Flour bakery, the 15-by-18-foot H-shaped cake comprises 60 individual red velvet sheet cakes , frosted with …
Off the Shelf
… Helping Students and Teachers Reach Across Lines of Disagreement, by Kent Lenci, Ed.M. ’05 (Routledge, $29.95 … Drawing on two decades of experience in middle schools, the author crafts a surprisingly warm and hopeful guidebook … the danger is real and a major cause of “the relentless rise of authoritarianism.” Unless capitalism is reformed by …
Issue: March-April 2023
“Become Better ‘Citizens of the World.’”
… Study abroad , now encouraged and integrated into the College experience, was largely absent in the late 1980s, recalls Jay Winthrop, principal of Douglass Winthrop Advisors LLC, a registered investment … exposure a priority—and urges students to take advantage of any chances to travel abroad to learn a language, gain …
Issue: September-October 2011
The Poor Payoff of Pleasure Postponed
… For all the hand-wringing over their failure to amass savings, … disciplined. So says Harvard Business School assistant professor Anat Keinan. A need to feel efficient, and a … and even immoral. Keinan and Columbia Business School professor Ran Kivetz call this hyperopia —the habit of …
Issue: September-October 2009
The Senior Housing Shortfall
… As the ranks of American seniors swell with aging baby boomers, … (JCHS) predict. They note that there is an acute lack of safe, affordable, and accessible housing options to … involved in maintaining a home, and we’ve seen a dramatic rise in the number of older adults paying mortgages into …
Issue: March-April 2023
The Political Solicitor General
… The most political case of the indelibly political Supreme … Lazarus didn’t pay a lot of attention to how the rise of this group affected the S.G.’s office , beyond the … of the S.G.’s role as counselor to the Court now rarely arises from threats to its “independence” by other political …
Issue: September-October 2018
Off the Shelf
… The Age of Science: What Scientists Learned in the Twentieth … Century, by Gerard Piel '37 (Basic Books, $40). The founder of Scientific American offers an elegantly written, … '80 (McGraw-Hill, $24.95). Here's an insider's story of the rise and demise of the first genetically engineered whole …
Issue: March-April 2002