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Getting to Mars (for Real)
Humans have been dreaming of living on the Red Planet for decades. Harvard researchers are on the case.
Constitutional scholar Noah Feldman profiled by Lincoln Caplan
Harvard Law School professor Noah Feldman’s constitutionalism is a branch of the humanities.
Claudia Jones
Brief life of an intersectional activist: 1915-1964
Computer science at Harvard in the 1960s and 1970s
The “yeasty” times” when computer research grew at Harvard
“Lives in Limbo”—Roberto Gonzales tallies the human and social costs
Sociologist Roberto Gonzales on the predicament of undocumented young people
Callimachus
Brief life of a multifaceted poet: c. 310 B.C.E. - c. 240 B.C.E.
by Stephanie Burt , Mark Payne
Nicholas Burns on diplomacy’s role in fostering U.S. standing in the world
On restoring American leadership through diplomacy
Music theorist Alexander Rehding profiled by Jacob Sweet
A professor’s interstellar reach
by Jacob Sweet
Walter Johnson writes about “The Broken Heart of America”
Walter Johnson’s radical history of St. Louis
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
Brief life of a breakthrough astronomer: 1900-1979
Ways to cope with the federal debt
The politics, policymaking, and public consequences of mounting government debt—and how to cope with it