Letters

Letters | March-April 2025

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

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...

Letters | September-October 2004

STEM-CELL RESEARCH Poor Jack, or is it Jill, pictured sitting atop a needle on the cover of your July-August issue ("Stem-Cell...

Letters | July-August 2004

THE FLABBY POPULACEGreat article by Craig Lambert on "The Way We Eat Now" (May-June, page 50), the best I have read on the subject...