Letters

10.8.2025

Readers write in about international students at Harvard, the September-October cover, and changes at the Chan School of Public Health.

3.1.2004

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

1.1.2004

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

11.1.2003

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

9.1.2003

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

7.1.2003

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

5.1.2003

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...

3.1.2003

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

1.1.2003

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

11.1.2002

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...

9.1.2002

"Ask me what College class I was in," says Harvard Alumni Association president Charles L. Brock, "and I have to admit I don't...