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Dollar Dramas

The preeminence of U.S. currency at risk

The Chinese in America

Michael Luo ’98 on the first great wave of immigration—and of nativist anti-immigrant reaction

Off the Shelf

Artmaking under duress, designing the UN HQ, Booker White’s blues, and more

Cruel and Unjust

A legal scholar’s harsh assessment of the Supreme Court’s rulings on crime

by Lincoln Caplan

Banned in Sparta

Millennia-old Greek lyrics ring out again in twenty-first-century pop music.

by Craig Lambert

Leslie Jamison’s Many Selves

The essayist on isolation, empathy, and selfhood

by Nina Pasquini

Harvard Sculptor Justin Peyser

Probing the concepts of territory and sanctuary.

by Lydialyle Gibson

On Unintended Consequences

Essayist Edward Tenner on technology’s pitfalls

Justice and “Despair”

A critical analysis of “settler colonialism”

Gathering Strings

Harpist Elisabeth Remy Johnson’s extended reach

by Lydialyle Gibson

Growing Pains

Actor and filmmaker Jacob Roberts’s Gen Z sensibility

by Nina Pasquini