Commentary
In-depth perspectives and critical analysis from faculty, editors, and readers on public affairs, higher education, and Harvard’s evolving mission.
How AI Is Reshaping Supply Chains
Harvard Kennedy School lecturer on using AI to strengthen supply chains
Nicholas Burns on diplomacy’s role in fostering U.S. standing in the world
On restoring American leadership through diplomacy
Letters from our readers
Health care, St. Louis, pioneering astronomer
The View from Mass Hall
President Bacow on Harvard’s history of confronting—and helping conquer—pandemics
Letting Go of the “Ideal” Classroom
“The ‘ideal’ classroom never existed anyway, at least not in a perfectly equitable manner,” writes Julie Chung ’20.
by Julie Chung
Zoom and the zero commute
“The biggest obstacle to our collective learning is the elephant in the room: a global pandemic, taking place amid existing inequalities,” writes Drew Pendergrass ’20.
Letters from our readers
Authoritarianism, labor law, climate change, and more
The View from Mass Hall
President Bacow on encountering—and coming to terms with—COVID-19
On faculties and longer-range planning for Harvard
Faculty governance and long-range intellectual planning for Harvard
The Undergraduate on power and the denial of scholarship
A student scientist contemplates power and the denial of scholarship.
Ways to cope with the federal debt
The politics, policymaking, and public consequences of mounting government debt—and how to cope with it