Features


Alice Hamilton

Brief life of a public-health pioneer and reformer: 1869-1970

by Daniel Stone

Plumbing the Deep Sea

Peter Girguis probes life on the ocean floor.

by Veronique Greenwood

Reviving the Purpose of American Higher Education

Pursuing their individual brands, colleges neglect the needs of higher education.

by Julie A. Reuben

Henry Clarke Warren

Brief life of a Harvard-educated Buddhist scholar: 1854-1899

by David Gauld

Inner Senses

Nicholas Bellono probes the biological basis of animal adaptations and behaviors.

by Jonathan Shaw

A Higher Degree of Responsibility

On the history and potential of values-driven enterprises

by Geoffrey Jones

To the Rescue

Harvard’s Scholars at Risk Program helps endangered artists and scholars

by Lydialyle Gibson

Fernando Zóbel-Montojo

Brief life of an abstract painter: 1924-1984

by Felipe Pereda

Humanists All

What is lost in the precipitous decline of the arts and humanities

by James Engell

The Happiness Revolutionary

Arthur Brooks moved beyond policy—to something deeper.

by Nancy Walecki

The Irresistible Allison Feaster

A basketball star's journey from the Harvard hardwood to the Celtics front office

by Lydialyle Gibson