Features
Moorfield Storey
Brief life of a patrician reformer: 1845-1929
by Geoffrey D. Austrian
Focus on Faust
Drew Faust’s presidency in perspective
by John S. Rosenberg
Writing Crime into Race
Historian Khalil Gibran Muhammad studies one of the most powerful ideas in the American imagination.
by Lydialyle Gibson
Tax Reform, Round One
Understanding the real consequences of the new tax law
by Mihir A. Desai
Targeting Cancer
Using precision medicine, Harvard researchers target cancer.
by Jonathan Shaw
Eunice Kennedy Shriver
Brief life of a world-changer: 1921-2009
by Eileen McNamara
Our Towns
James ’70 and Deborah Fallows ’71 explore “what the hell is happening in America.”
by Lincoln Caplan
Last of the Seafarers
In Indonesia, the Bajau fishermen’s way of life is under pressure.
by Lydialyle Gibson , David Hu
The Mirage of Knowledge
Tom Nichols dissects the dangerous antipathy to expertise.
by Lydialyle Gibson
Art and Activism
Rediscovering Alain Locke and the project of black self-realization
by Adam Kirsch