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Playing Offense
… president again, launched a sweeping attack on any hint of diversity and equity within federal reach. Two months later, as this is written, it’s clear that the administration is pursuing a multifront assault on … not existential, for places like Columbia. (American Enterprise Institute polemicist Max Eden in December called …
Issue: May-June 2025
The Business of Fighting Cancer
… M.B.A '85 , a former alumni achievement award winner at the school, has turned her personal experience, following … her diagnosis with multiple myeloma (a fatal cancer of the plasma cells) in 1996, into her new profession, as founder and CEO of the Multiple Myeloma …
Man, Mongoose, and Machine
… Standing outside a Sri Lankan army base in the spring of 2007, Thrishantha Nanayakkara mapped an entire … on his computer. A mongoose hitched to a robot did most of the work. Courtesy of Thrishantha Nanayakkara Two linked …
Issue: September-October 2008
The Politics of Paying for HIV Care
… As one of four institutions chosen in 2004 to administer the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), … Harvard oversees patient care at 10 hospitals and a network of clinics, and operates a drug distribution network, in …
Issue: September-October 2010
Controlling the Global Thermostat
… Climate change may be the most inexorable catastrophe the human species has ever … be made, and feasibly paid for? How high will sea level rise by 2050? By 2100? Given rich nations and poor ones, and … we could become carbon-neutral tomorrow,” says the director of the Harvard University Center for the Environment, “the …
Issue: November-December 2020
The China Trade
… The earliest United States trade with China, it may be hard … such goods as tea and textiles, and amounted to tens of thousands of dollars, rather than trillions. The … outward today. Unlike the great European joint-stock enterprises—the Dutch East India Company and its British …
Issue: September-October 2012
The Human Side of Cancer Treatment
… at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in last year. The former Harvard Business School staff member wrote this … personal piece about her oncology nurse, and the human side of cancer treatment, as a capstone for her master’s in … of cancer treatment and the series of patient issues that arise moment to moment, the end of an oncology nurse’s shift …
Off the Shelf
… The Rise and Fall of American Growth, by Robert J. Gordon ’62 (Princeton, $39.95). In a huge study of the U.S. standard of living since the Civil War, the …
Issue: January-February 2016
Off the Shelf
… Yeltsin: A Life, by Timothy J. Colton, Feldberg professor of government and Russian studies ( Basic Books, $35 ). A monumental biography of the flawed, but democratic, Russian president. Mean and … Music Shed, and the precursor to the Internet. The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State, by Noah Feldman, professor of law …
Issue: May-June 2008
The Sorry State of Harvard Football
… an intensive national gridiron recruiting campaign in the late 1930s, and by the end of 1950 the Tigers ranked seventh in the country," writes … The columnist counseled [President James B.] Conant to skim off the top of Harvard's athletic endowment and tell Bingham …
Issue: September-October 2001
Bioterrorism and the University
… There can be few higher privileges for the scientific … than to contribute to the security, freedom, and well-being of our nation and of people around the world. It is … with ordinary catalog items, like fermentors and milling machines, which are legitimately used to produce chemicals, …
Issue: November-December 2003
The Half-life of Robin and Kim
… policemen, and mailmen sound like cultural relics from the 1950s next to the no-nonsense firefighters, police officers, and mail carriers who people our streets today. … first names, which rank among the most important markers of gender? Have androgynous names multiplied along with …
The Cost of Political Violence
… Donald Trump, rising political violence is once again in the news. On Thursday afternoon, the Harvard Kennedy School convened a panel of scholars to discuss how Americans’ attitudes have … The bottom line? “The fight to uphold democracy is all of our fights,” said Hardy Merriman, president of the …
“A Category of One”
… Edward Gorey ’50 might have hated Gorey: The Secret Lives of Edward Gorey , a new dramaturgical take … poignant darknesses, and unexpected delights as one of Gorey’s own works. But to the extent that an audience …
Ball of Mystery
… The United Fruit Company planted huge quantities of bananas … the underbrush numerous stone balls. The original purpose of the balls--and more than 300 of them exist, from a few …