Letters

Letters | March-April 2025

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

Letters | May-June 2006

Harvard continues to be an acute embarrassment to me, but unfortunately not to itself. It will take my beloved College 20 years to overcome the...

Letters | March-April 2006

I believe Erin O’Donnell’s statement (“Twigs Bent Left or Right,” January-February, page 34)that “people are...

Letters | January-February 2006

Undertreating Chronic Pain Kathleen Koman’s article about pain (“The Science of Hurt,” November-December 2005, page 46)...

Letters | November-December 2005

SO YOU WANT TO BE 120 Is aging necessary? (“The Aging Enigma,” by Jonathan Shaw, September-October, page 46). You bet it is...

Letters | September-October 2005

Understanding Sleep Your readers should know something of what was left out of “Deep into Sleep,” by Craig Lambert (May-June, page...

Letters | July-August 2005

AT ODDS I was dismayed to see the Faculty of Arts and Sciences mounting their protests against President Lawrence H. Summers’s suggestion...

Letters | May-June 2005

Getting Social Security Right I appreciate Professor Jeffrey B. Liebman’s recognition (“Reforming Social Security,&rdquo...

Letters | March-April 2005

WATER AND OIL The quote from Azzam Alwash, director of the Eden Again Project, with which Christopher Reed's article on Iraq's Marsh Arabs...

Letters | January-February 2005

THE CENTER OF THE WORLD The Middle East and western Asia are again, as ever, at the center of the world: the birthplace of recorded history...

Letters | November-December 2004

ART FAKERYWhen I saw the cover of the September-October issue, I wondered, Why would anyone want to fake a rather junky-looking piece of...