Features

Celebrating Integrity

Harvard passes a test of its values, yet challenges loom.

by Jonathan Shaw

Millicent Todd Bingham

Brief life of an unlikely Dickinson scholar

by Julie Dobrow

The Cell’s Power Plant

Probing the mysteries of mitochondria, Vamsi Mootha discovers new ways to understand metabolic disease.

by Jonathan Shaw

The Players

How the Crimson squad from the immortal ’68 Game revealed a transforming Harvard

by George Howe Colt

From the Archives: Image and the Arc of Feeling

Jorie Graham’s challenging lyrics use language to give readers the experience of the poem. 

by Craig Lambert

The Pragmatist

Lawrence S. Bacow, a career educator, is schooled in making decisions.

by John S. Rosenberg

William Morris Davis

Brief life of William Morris Davis, pioneering geomorphologist

by Philip S. Koch

The Political Solicitor General

The “Tenth Justice” and the polarization of the Supreme Court

by Lincoln Caplan

The Football Industrial Complex

Boosting the game, and The Game

by Dick Friedman

From the Archives: Unequal Incomes

The worrisome distribution of the fruits of American economic growth

by Richard B. Freeman

The “Global Chemical Experiment”

Elsie Sunderland traces the flows of human pollutants in the oceans. They come back to bite us.

by Courtney Humphries