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We’re Thinking About Darkness All Wrong
There’s a growing movement to curb light pollution. It starts on your front porch.
Federico Capasso: The Quantum Designer
From quantum materials design to “voodoo physics” in the nanoscientists’ weird world
The Historian-Autobiographers
Should Harvard be grateful to Henry Adams for establishing a tradition of Harvard-trained historians who have written about their own lives...
Understanding Welfare Reform
One million children pushed into poverty: That was the prediction of a widely cited study on the likely effect of welfare reform, released just...
Benning Wentworth
When Benning Wentworth, A.B. 1715, retired as royal governor of New Hampshire in the summer of 1767, he was one of the richest men in New...
The Future of Marriage
When I came to Harvard in 1970, the model for many young people was the wedding in Love Story," recalls Peter J. Gomes, who has performed...
The Hack as Genius
Earlier this year, Houghton Library announced one of the most exciting donations in its history: the Donald and Mary Hyde Collection of Dr...
by Adam Kirsch
The Mysterious Mr. Shakespeare
Cogan University professor Stephen Greenblatt set out to solve a mystery about Shakespeare
Self-Binding
At the end of World War II, the United States found itself in a situation of unprecedented power. The economy of the former hegemonic state...
Little Boat, Unsalvaged
Thwarts, chines, ribs mud-caked, this one's deadrise bow is liftedas if by gusts, whitecaps' scud and swat no fear with her. Would she ...
Brief life of public thinker Stuart Chase
On a chilly autumn day in 1911, Stuart Chase entered the Boston Public Library and, finding a seat in the economics section, composed a personal...