Commentary
In-depth perspectives and critical analysis from faculty, editors, and readers on public affairs, higher education, and Harvard’s evolving mission.
Harvard Retains Winthrop Name
Committee undecided on whether owning slaves merits denaming
by Max J. Krupnick
Yesterday’s News
From the pages of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin and Harvard Magazine
Cambridge 02138
Correspondence about caregiving, football, feminism, free speech, and more
“The World Right Now Cannot Afford Indifference”
Lawrence S. Bacow represents Harvard at the Auschwitz Liberation Observance.
by Lawrence S. Bacow
Jimmy Carter and James Agee ’32
Why this “sovereign prince of the English language” touched the president’s heart
by Lincoln Caplan
Cambridge 02138
Correspondence about housing affordability, athletes’ success, antisemitism, teaching reading, and more
Western Civ.
An archaeologist/curator/hands-on humanist, and an artifact from the era of typewritten term papers
by Primus VI
Barbara Lawrence
Brief life of an intrepid mammalogist: 1909-1997
by Jonathan Shaw
Yesterday’s News
From the pages of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin and Harvard Magazine
Category Errors
Skirmishing about what it means to protest
President Garber’s Quiet Installation
A private ceremony celebrated Garber’s appointment as president.
by Jonathan Shaw