Features
The True Cost of Grade Inflation at Harvard
How an abundance of A’s created “the most stressed-out world of all.”
The new engineers: snapshots of synthetic biologists at work
For synthetic biologists, there appears to be no limit to what they can build.
A better way to reduce gun violence
David Hemenway advocates a pragmatic, public-health-based solution to gun homicides and suicides.
Harvard alumni pioneer new journalism models
New models for newspaper journalism in the Internet era
by Mark Travis
Romare Bearden profiled by Robert G. O'Meally
Brief life of a textured artist: 1911-1988
Science historian Sarah Richardson profiled by Bennett McIntosh
Historian and philosopher Sarah Richardson interrogates the science of sex and gender.
William Monroe Trotter
Brief life of a black radical: 1872-1934
Harvard Art Museums exhibit displays the ubiquity of cross-border movement
The ubiquity of movement across man-made borders
A.O. Scott on the Value of Movie Reviews
The longtime New York Times film critic navigates the changing world of moviemaking—and moviegoing.
The Talent for Aging Well
George E. Vaillant's generational research on Harvard men unveils the differences that distinguish the "happy-well" from the "sad-sick" in later life.
Historian Elizabeth Hinton: a profile
Historian Elizabeth Hinton probes the roots of a gathering crisis.