Features

Why Harvard Needs International Students

Global challenges demand global experiences

by Fernando M. Reimers

Conquest of the Air

Orville Wright's historic first flight lasted just 12 seconds. The Wright Flyer traveled 120 feet, a skip across the sand at Kitty Hawk's Kill...

Living History

We create ourselves out of the stories we tell about our lives, stories that impose purpose and meaning on experiences that often seem random...

by Drew Gilpin Faust

Efficient Taxation of Income

In June 2001, President George W. Bush signed the Economic Growth and Tax Relief and Reconciliation Act into law, initiating a 10-year program...

Eleanor Rathbone

Seventy years ago, on April 13, 1933, a debate took place in the House of Commons over how the British government should respond to the new Nazi...

Of Ants and Earth

Formal retirement hasn't slowed E. O. Wilson down at all. Since assuming emeritus status as Pellegrino University Research Professor in 1997...

by John S. Rosenberg

Unveiled

Grenville Lindall Winthrop, A.B. 1886, LL.B. '89, had a passion for beauty. He had financial resources, leisure, and eclectic tastes, and...

by Christopher Reed

What Causes Cancer

J. Michael Bishop, M.D. '62, is a self-described inveterate baseball fan and inadvertent microbiologist. His sports aspirations have been...

Phenome Fellow

In a Marist monastery in southern Bavaria, 11-year-old Hans Hofmann began his classical education. "I studied Greek, Latin, and...

by Jonathan Shaw

Paul Cabot

Crack! Paul Cabot pulled his ROTC rifle back from his dorm's open window and surveyed the damage. Students had been holding a dance in the Yard...

Hertzberg of the New Yorker

On a January evening in 1977, at the old New Yorker offices on West 43rd Street, a going-away party was in progress for Hendrik Hertzberg '65, a...

by Craig Lambert