Letters

Your Views on Harvard’s Standoff, Antisemitism, and More

Readers comment on the controversial July-August cover, authoritarianism, and scientific research.

Harvard’s Struggle to Please Everyone

Winthrop House, Trump negotiations, and the quest for an easy solution

Joanna Weiss On Harvard's Permanence and Future

Back to campus, and to challenging conversations  

by Joanna M Weiss

Letters to Harvard Magazine Summer 2025

Readers’ views on gender gaps, freedom of speech, an editor’s farewell, the hippocampus, Alice Hamilton, standing up to the Trump administration, and more

John Rosenberg Retires From Harvard Magazine

The long-time editor signs off

Higher Education at an Inflection Point

Making the case for higher education, diversity, the humanities, speech, and more—at a perilous time

Harvard Endowment, Criminal Justice, and Settler Colonialism

Readers’s views on road safety, protests, settler colonialism, and responding to the Trump administration’s actions against Harvard

At Risk

Severe threats to Harvard’s finances—and academic mission—in the new political landscape

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Correspondence about caregiving, football, feminism, free speech, and more

Letters to the Editor Harvard Magazine January-February 2025

Correspondence about housing affordability, athletes’ success, antisemitism, teaching reading, and more

Who Should Define Campus Free Speech?

Skirmishing about what it means to protest