Letters

Letters | March-April 2025

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

Letters | May-June 2004

THE POWER OF EXERCISE "The Deadliest Sin," by Jonathan Shaw (March-April, page 36), is the first article that I have seen to discuss...

Letters | March-April 2004

JUDGING THE DEFICIT DANGERWhat's good for short-run fiscal policy is bad for long-run fiscal policy ("The Deficit Danger," by Benjamin...

Letters | January-February 2004

BIOTERRORISM THREATSNestled as it is between the "invisible college" of Copernicus and the Harvard Medical School research-building...

Letters | November-December 2003

THE STADIUM'S CENTENNIALI was initially intrigued by the sidebar "Little Red Flag" in Craig Lambert and John Bethell's "First and...

Letters | September-October 2003

PYRAMID BUILDERSI read withgreat interest "Who Built thePyramids?" by Jonathan Shaw (July-August, page 42), describingMark Lehner's...

Letters | July-August 2003

SEGREGATION, NOW AND THENI enjoyed Drew Gilpin Faust's delightful "Living History" (May-June, page 38), about racial segregation in...

Letters | May-June 2003

STAY-AT-HOME PARENTS As a student and professor at Harvard for more than 14 years, I am well acquainted with our institution's emphasis on...

Letters | March-April 2003

ONLY IN AMERICA "Simple Hosts" (January-February, page 48) was most enlightening.Author Patricia Thomas achieved a journalistic tour...

Letters | January-February 2003

CLIMATE CHANGEI tried to write a book about changing our climate. When I realized that it had to be called "Avoiding Genocide," I...

Letters | November-December 2002

ART MUSEUMS IN A NEW WORLD As aformer student in Harvard's fine arts department and now a professorof art history, I eagerly read Janet...