Features
The True Cost of Grade Inflation at Harvard
How an abundance of A’s created “the most stressed-out world of all.”
Anita Elberse on the big business of blockbusters
In entertainment, big bets on likely winners rule.
Robert Frost revealed in his letters
Robert Frost’s “doubleness,” revealed in his letters—and poems.
by Adam Kirsch
Harvard sociologist Matthew Desmond on evictions
Sociologist Matthew Desmond studies eviction and the lives of America’s poor.
Harvard art historian Jennifer Roberts teaches the value of immersive attention
Teaching students the value of deceleration and immersive attention
![J.C. Buttre’s portrait, probably drawn when Everett ran for vice president on the Constitutional Union Party ticket in 1860, links him to Harvard and George Washington, one of his favorite subjects. (His lectures raised more than $100,000 to help purchase Mount Vernon [see <a href="http://harvardmagazine.com/2011/05/granny-talk">“Granny Talk”</a>], and he wrote the entry on Washington for the 1860 <i>Encyclopaedia Britannica.</i>)](/sites/default/files/styles/homepage_main_featured_720x405/public/img/article/1013/nd13_page_047_01_.jpg.webp?itok=9AIuWRvr "Engraving by J.C. Buttre/Library of Congress")
Brief life of statesman-orator Edward Everett, by Castle Freeman
Brief life of a statesman-orator: 1794-1865
Harvard’s Michael McElroy has a scenario for approving the Keystone XL Pipeline
Should the president approve construction?
Michael Van Valkenburgh, Harvard landscape architecture professor: a profile
Michael Van Valkenburgh helps lead a second great age of city-making.
Life in the Harvard Houses, now being renewed
The singular character of the College’s residences, now in renewal
Brief life of nature writer Henry Beston Sheahan, by John Nelson
Brief life of a nature writer in a machine age: 1888-1968
by John Nelson
Self-Fashioning in Society and Solitude
On crafting a liberal-arts education by reading the classics and shaping one's life course