Features
Celebrating Integrity
Harvard passes a test of its values, yet challenges loom.
by Jonathan Shaw
Can America Compete?
A discussion with Harvard Business School faculty members
Architecture in Concert
William Rawn’s designs begin not with the eye, but the ear.
by Craig Lambert
Reinventing the Classroom
Anatomy of a new course—and a new approach to teaching it
by Harry R. Lewis
![Ronald Reagan wrote in his presidential diary for September 12, 1988: “Then a briefing for a pleasant interview which took place at 11:30 with Warren Brooks [sic] my favorite Ec. columnist.”](/sites/default/files/styles/mobile_teaser_wide/public/img/article/0812/vitaso12.jpg.webp?itok=tnyZNn-N "Courtesy of the Ronald Reagan Library")
Vita: Warren Brookes
Brief life of a “pneumatic” journalist: 1929-1991
by Charles G. Kels
Vita: William Francis Gibbs
Brief life of America’s greatest naval architect: 1886-1967
by Steven Ujifusa
Owl, Pussycat
A bicentennial exhibition features the little-known, masterful animal artistry of Edward Lear.
by Christopher Reed
Voter Suppression Returns
Voting rights and partisan practices in a highly contested election year
by Alexander Keyssar
The Case for Compromise
Continuous campaigning and gridlocked governing in American politics
by Amy Gutmann , Dennis Thompson
A Radical Fix for the Republic
Lawrence Lessig thinks American democracy requires a constitutional overhaul to counter the “economy of influence.”
by Jonathan Shaw
On the Origins of the Arts
Sociobiologist E.O. Wilson on the evolution of culture