Commentary

In-depth perspectives and critical analysis from faculty, editors, and readers on public affairs, higher education, and Harvard’s evolving mission.

Your Views on Harvard’s Standoff, Antisemitism, and More

Readers comment on the controversial July-August cover, authoritarianism, and scientific research.

Harvard Endowment, Criminal Justice, and Settler Colonialism

Readers’s views on road safety, protests, settler colonialism, and responding to the Trump administration’s actions against Harvard

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Correspondence about caregiving, football, feminism, free speech, and more

Harvard Magazine Reader's Letters

Master Finley, whales’ speech, Harvard values

Letters from our readers

Climate change, COVID-19, housing inequity

Letters from our readers

Leadership crisis, Israel and Gaza, “Undergraduate” Insights

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The campus sundered, stem cell research, voting, and more

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Campus discourse, ethics education, affirmative action

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Readers’ views about healthy diets, teachers off the tenure track, mitzvot, and more

Toward a Liberal Realist Foreign Policy

On January 20, you will inherit a legacy of trouble: Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, Palestine, North Korea for starters. Failure to manage any one of...