Arts & Culture
Explore Harvard’s vibrant arts scene—from campus exhibitions and theater to cultural analysis and literary reviews. Discover how creativity shapes the Harvard experience.
Making Money Funny
Matt Levine’s spunky Bloomberg column
by Max J. Krupnick
What Books Are For
The Radcliffe Institute’s “Why Books?” conference touches on a timely theme.
by Spencer Lee Lenfield
Putting the Tea Party in Perspective
Harvard historian Jill Lepore puts the modern day Tea Party movement into historical perspective.
From Hull House to the White House
James Kloppenberg explicates Barack Obama’s perspective on the American democratic ideal of melding individual views and interests into the common good.
by James T. Kloppenberg
Comedy, Harvard, and Hollywood
Three articles from Harvard Magazine’s archives explore the roles Harvard alumni have played in the entertainment industry and their influence on comedy.
Video: Modern-Day Romanticism
In her latest book of poems, April Bernard aims to capture the intensity of the Romantic Era. Watch as she discusses, and reads from, her work.
Y Is for “Yell”
A sampler from the Harvard University Library's online collection Reading: Harvard Views of Readers, Readership, and Reading History.
by Christopher Reed
A Renaissance for Medieval Classics
A new series from Harvard University Press reintroduces works that mattered in the Middle Ages. With excerpts from two of the works.
by Spencer Lee Lenfield
“A Nation Arguing with Its Conscience”
Deliberative democracy, philosophical pragmatism, and Barack Obama's conception of American governance
by James T. Kloppenberg
Alice Paul
Brief life of a pioneering suffragist: 1885-1977
by Mary Walton
Funniest Pages
Rick Meyerowitz’s Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead is a compendium of the best pieces from the National Lampoon.
by Craig Lambert