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The New Monopoly
… Market concentration , the economist’s term for how much an industry is dominated by one or a few firms, touches ever more aspects of American life. From the obvious (the Amazons and Walmarts … income going to labor has fallen in tandem with the rise of “superstar” firms: situations where a small number …
Issue: March-April 2019
The Price of Healthy Eating
… Anecdotally , the cost of a healthy diet—rich in fruits, vegetables, fish, … nuts, for example—has been assumed to be higher than that of a diet consisting of unhealthy processed foods. Now …
Issue: March-April 2014
The Pathfinder Nation
… During the past few years, we seem to have observed the fiftieth anniversary of everything. Through media and memory, we have again been … life-giving connections between farm and market, enterprise and capital, hope and future had been severed. …
The Endowment and the Environment: Year Three
… Harvard Management Company (HMC), which manages the University’s endowment, released its third annual climate report February 9. This series of reports began in 2021, a year after Harvard announced a … such a commitment. The new report, based on data current as of June 30, 2022 (the end of the most recent fiscal year), …
From the Archives: The Market-Model University
… More than two decades ago—before the Great Recession caused states to slash funding for … before the gold rush into social media lured a generation of students into computer science and engineering; before … working alone. Ethical debates in medicine, environmental crises, legal issues involving the history of race relations: …
“The Measure of the Novel”
… ’12, who has been attending this year’s Norton Lectures by the Turkish novelist and Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk, filed … on September 22 for Sanders Theatre to open for the first of the 2009-2010 Charles Eliot Norton Lectures, all the talk was of the lecturer, Orhan Pamuk: "Have you read any of his …
Taste of Provence
… This could be where a trend starts: Sel de la Terre, hard by the site of Boston's Big Dig, offers eight first courses, all priced at $8, and seven …
Off the Shelf
… Wellesley for more than 25 years, reintroduces readers to the literature of Homer, Ovid, Virgil, and many others. She keeps our eyes … so it is. Generously illustrated. Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry, by P.W. Singer, …
Issue: November-December 2003
Amy Poehler Named Woman of the Year
… star and Boston-area native Amy Poehler will receive the Hasty Pudding Club’s 2015 Woman of the Year Award, honoring “a talented and hilarious actress whose brand of comedy fits so well with the Pudding’s own tradition of …
The New Little Magazines
… were surrounded by taxidermied peacocks and monkeys in the lounge of New York’s Jane Hotel. That evening this spring, they … it; and streaming platforms are responsible for the rise of the bland maximalism of today’s most influential pop …
Issue: September-October 2023
Chris Pratt Is Man of the Year
… After announcing last week that Amy Poehler will be Woman of the Year , yet another Parks and Recreation actor—comedian … take center stage in Farkas Hall as the Hasty Pudding Man of the Year, the group announced today. “We vehemently deny …
Off the Shelf
… I’ll Drink to That: Beaujolais and the French Peasant Who Made It the World’s Most Popular Wine … thinks he does,” writes the author. After reading this saga of the wine and people of Beaujolais—in particular Georges … and bumper stickers. Day of Empire: How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance—and Why They Fall , by Amy Chua …
Issue: November-December 2007
The Outsiders’ Insider
… Backstage at the Montalban Theater in Los Angeles, Franklin Leonard ’00 … sandwich to the green room. It’s his party, in a manner of speaking, and the table’s been set with beer and wine and … (“combat with weapons,” “$1-10mm [budget],” “twist/surprise ending,” and “female protagonist [diversity]”). Writers …
Issue: July-August 2016
Paradise in the Kingdom of Plants
… After I spent a month in hectic and dusty Beijing, Kunming—“the city of Eternal Spring,” the capital of Yunnan province—came as a breath of fresh air, literally …
The Aging Enigma
… Is aging necessary? Are the wrinkles and gray hair, weakening muscles, … reduced cardiovascular function, and increased risk of cancer that afflict organisms toward the end of their … that SIRT1 (the mammalian equivalent of Sir2 in yeast) rises when levels of these hormones fall, as they would in a …
Issue: September-October 2005