Features

To Promote Healthy Habits in Patients, Start with the Doctors

Why Harvard Medical School is training physicians to think more like coaches

by Jonathan Shaw

John Harvard

John Harvard's name is so familiar that it may come as a surprise to learn how much of a man of mystery he is. Most graduates of the university...

The Law School and the Law

Rest assured, Harvard Law School is still teaching the law by the Socratic method--even over the Internet. "I've just started this privacy...

Thomas Forrest Kelly teaches about “First NIghts”—musical premieres

A look at Thomas Forrest Kelly’s Harvard Core course on five musical premieres

Cities and Suburbs

Can our cities be made livable for all kinds of citizens, or are they condemned to be office ghettoes and entertainment zones used by suburban...

The Pathfinder Nation

In her Commencement address, the Secretary of State challenges Americans to be the "authors of history."

Rethinking Tenure

Toward new templates for academic employment

Mame-loshn at Harvard

Harvard professor Ruth Wisse conveys the joys of Yiddish and finds in its literature a provocative case for a strong Israel.

Phenomenal Surfaces

A pioneering effort to illuminate the nature of things

Umm Kulthum Ibrahim

Brief life of "the star of the East": 1904?-1975

Frank Roosevelt at Harvard

A profile of the president as alumnus

by John T. Bethell