Commentary
In-depth perspectives and critical analysis from faculty, editors, and readers on public affairs, higher education, and Harvard’s evolving mission.
Harvard Football Team Starts Off an Ivy League Favorite
The 152nd Crimson season kicks off Saturday against Stetson.
Freshman year, 10 years out
A graduate reflects on history—personal and otherwise.
Nuclear War in Korea? Eggs and Taxes More Urgent
Living calmly next to a rogue nuclear state
Letters from our readers
Readers comment further on “Fair Harvard,” teaching the liberal arts, celebrity and politics, the middle class, and more.
The view from Mass Hall
President Drew Faust on the rise, and significance, of engineering and the applied sciences at Harvard
Pivoting to focus on faculty and research
Making the faculty and research a high priority for the presidential search
Derek Bok on reforming higher ed
Derek Bok and other scholars weigh in on improving universities and colleges—and why that’s hard to do.
The Undergraduate looks at cycles in college friendships
The Undergraduate contemplates cycles in college friendships.
Harvard satirized, critiqued, aflame
A fresh source for Harvard humor, a critique embedded in a memorium, and historic photos of a famous campus fire
by Primus VI
College Hackathons
On the draws and limitations of college hackathons
by Alisha Ukani
Federal funding at risk
The administration’s potentially costly misunderstanding about science