Features

Celebrating Integrity

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

by Jonathan Shaw

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