Features
The True Cost of Grade Inflation at Harvard
How an abundance of A’s created “the most stressed-out world of all.”
Brief life of formidable anthropologist Cora Du Bois, by Susan C. Seymour
Brief life of a formidable anthropologist: 1903-1991
Judge Richard Posner, profiled by Lincoln Caplan
The double life of Richard Posner, America’s most contentious legal reformer
James O’Connell of HMS and Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program
James O’Connell has spent 30 years caring for the homeless.
Daniel Aaron is profiled by Christoph Irmscher
Now in his second century, the uncommon Daniel Aaron remains at work.
Brief life of scientific sleuth Joseph T. Walker, by Thomas W. Walker
Brief life of a scientific sleuth: 1908-1952
Joseph Koerner on the significance of Max Beckmann's "Self-Portrait in Tuxedo"
Max Beckmann’s Self-Portrait in Tuxedo
Tim Murphy is Harvard’s greatest football coach
Harvard’s greatest football coach—and one of the best anywhere
The perfect pitch of filmmaker Andrew Bujalski
The perfect pitch of filmmaker Andrew Bujalski
Corita Kent's screenprints are part of Pop art's history and culture
A Harvard exhibit situates her work in the Pop art movement.
Brief life of Harvard astronomer William Cranch Bond, by Alan Hirshfeld
Brief life of Harvard's first astronomer: 1789-1859