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The Year a Beat Poet Squatted at Harvard
In 1954, Gregory Corso moved into Eliot House. How he stayed there is a literary legend.
Nuclear weapons are incompatible with the U.S. constitution and democracy
“Out of ratio” weapons are essentially ungovernable.
Citizen science draws amateurs into scientific research
In the Internet era, research moves from professionals’ labs to amateurs’ homes.
Brief life of novelist Ann Petry, by Farah Jasmine Griffin
Brief life of a celebrity-averse novelist: 1908-1997
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.