Features
The Year a Beat Poet Squatted at Harvard
In 1954, Gregory Corso moved into Eliot House. How he stayed there is a literary legend.
Harvard's Landscape Architect Bas Smets on Cooling Cities
Bas Smets harnesses nature to cool cities.
Why Do Groups Hate?
Mina Cikara explores how people come into conflict, in politics and beyond
Can Plants Sequester Enough Carbon To Slow Climate Change?
The world’s forests impound carbon below ground, a Harvard scientist shows, but for how long?
The Harvard Graduate and Early Vegetarian Benjamin Smith Lyman
Brief life of the vegetarian trailblazer, 1835-1920
Homelessness Is a Crisis of Public Health
In our fragmented system, loss of housing leads to mental and physical deterioration. Some new initiatives aim to connect the remedies.
Diagnosis by Fiction
The “Healing Quartet” probes medicine—and life.
Why Americans Love to Hate Harvard
The president emeritus on elite universities’ academic accomplishments—and a rising tide of antagonism
by Derek Bok
How Birds Lost Flight
Scott Edwards discovers evolution’s master switches.
Winthrop Bell: Harvard Philosopher, MI6 Spy, and Early Forecaster of the Holocaust
Brief life of a philosopher and spy: 1884-1965
by Jason Bell
Zelia Nuttall
Brief life of a remarkable anthropologist (1857-1933)