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Features | July-August 2025

Celebrating Integrity

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

by Jonathan Shaw

Olympic aftermath: the 2004 Athens softball venue, derelict a decade later

Features | July-August 2015

A Fiscal Faustian Bargain

An economic analyst of sports dissects the assumptions behind Boston's bid for the 2024 Olympics.

by Andrew Zimbalist

Eliot, 1919

Features | July-August 2015

The Young T.S. Eliot

A rediscovery of the emerging poet

by Adam Kirsch

Terry Fisher

Features | July-August 2015

Is Small Beautiful?

Online education looks beyond the MOOC.

by Stephanie Garlock

David Ferry

Features | May-June 2015

Line by Line

Poet and translator David Ferry

by Spencer Lee Lenfield

Mara Prentiss

Features | May-June 2015

Altering Course

Why the United States may be on the cusp of an energy revolution

by Jonathan Shaw

Nuttall during his time at Harvard (the circa 1828 portrait is attributed to J. Whitfield)

Features | May-June 2015

Vita: Thomas Nuttall

Brief life of a pioneering naturalist: 1786-1859

by John Nelson

Sendhil Mullainathan

Features | May-June 2015

The Science of Scarcity

A behavioral economist’s fresh perspectives on poverty

by Cara Feinberg

Graduate School of Education professors Tina Grotzer and Christopher Dede have designed virtual realities, such as the pond above, for students to explore as scientists: for example, by collecting data along the shoreline or underwater, via submarine.

Features | March-April 2015

Computing in the Classroom

From the “Teaching Machine” to the promise of twenty-first-century learning technology

by Sophia Nguyen

Lafayette became a friend of American artist and inventor Samuel F.B. Morse, who depicted him with Revolutionary icons Washington and Franklin in this 1826 portrait.

Features | March-April 2015

Vita: Lafayette

Brief life of an American champion: 1757-1834

by Laura Auricchio

Michael Maltzan Architecture’s New Carver Apartments stands out against the busy Santa Monica Freeway.

Features | March-April 2015

Good Design

A public interest movement redefines architecture.

by Stephanie Garlock