Features
The Year a Beat Poet Squatted at Harvard
In 1954, Gregory Corso moved into Eliot House. How he stayed there is a literary legend.
Cass Sunstein on the constitution in the 21st century
Cass Sunstein and the modern regulatory state
James Laughlin at Harvard, by Ian S. MacNiven, from LITERCHOOR IS MY BEAT
James Laughlin’s transit to Harvard and Europe—and pioneering literary publishing
History turns toward the global, the scientific, and the quantitative
Scholars pursue sweeping new interpretations of the human past.
John Muir
A brief life of a Scottish-American conservationist
Sociologist Orlando Patterson does landmark work on slavery and freedom.
Orlando Patterson may be the last of Harvard sociology’s big thinkers.
Harvard's Dale Jorgenson advocates taxing carbon and recycling the revenue
A plan for controlling greenhouse gases while enhancing economic growth
Brief life of America’s epic historian Francis Parkman, by Castle Freeman
Brief life of America’s epic historian: 1823-1893
Harvard scholars explore transforming biology into an engineering discipline
Life, reengineered
Harvard students’ personal speeches build community and communication skills
“Community-building magic” through public, personal reflections
Tobin Project real-world social science, inequality, regulation
The interdisciplinary Tobin Project addresses real-world problems.