Features
These Harvard Graduates Are Candidates for Sainthood
For advocacy and benevolence, three late alumni are reportedly in line for the Catholic Church’s highest honor.
by Alex Beam
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
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...
Wrong
In June of 1955, Agnes Mongan, then assistant director and curator of drawings at Harvard's Fogg Art Museum, bought a drawing by Henri Matisse, A Lady with Flowers and Pomegranates, for $325...
Public-health response to gun fatalities: make weapons less lethal
The public-health response to gun casualties: make the weapons less lethal
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...
Caliphate of Terror
This year, a group of international terrorists announced its intention to affect an election with the goal of replacing a government that...
Helen Keller
Totally deaf and blind from the age of 19 months, world famous at seven for having learned to read, write, and communicate through the finger...