Arts & Culture
Harvard Files for Permanent Relief from Trump Administration’s Funding Cuts
Argues federal government’s actions amount to “unlawful retaliation”
by Nina Pasquini
“Hope to Achieve Beauty”: A Class Day Talk at the Graduate School of Design
Architect Denise Scott Brown recommends hitchhiking and the brave results that can emerge from tackling hard problems.
“Panic in the Year Zero”
A poem by D.A. Powell, from the 2010 Phi Beta Kappa Literary Exercises. [audio]
“Panic” and “Friendship” at Phi Beta Kappa
Historian Natalie Zemon Davis speaks on "The Possibilities of Friendship." Also featuring poet D.A. Powell with a vivid new work. [video/audio]
Satirist Borowitz on New PBS Show
Humorist Andy Borowitz ’80 will do a comedy segment each week on a new PBS news program, Need to Know.
Highbrow Lingerie
Fashion designer Laura Mehlinger draws on inspirations ranging from Vladimer Nabokow to Prince.
New Ancient Sculpture
Sculptor James Dinerstein’s works in concrete and bronze fuse ancient forms with modern abstraction.
by Paul Gleason
Skyscraper as Symbol
In Tall Building: Imagining the Skyscraper, Scott Johnson explores the semiotics of these urban giants.
by Jonathan Shaw
A Cautionary Tale
David Warsh reviews Robert J. Samuelson's The Great Inflation and Its Aftermath
by David Warsh
The Green-Pea Memo
Poking fun “at the academic-bureaucratic mentality of university life”
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections