Students & Alumni
Features on student life and alumni journeys, capturing the spirit, impact, and diversity of the Harvard community.
Harvard Retains Winthrop Name
Committee undecided on whether owning slaves merits denaming
by Max J. Krupnick
Nuclear War in Korea? Eggs and Taxes More Urgent
Living calmly next to a rogue nuclear state
by Spencer Lee Lenfield
Criminal Injustice
Alec Karakatsanis puts “human caging” and “wealth-based detention” in America on trial.
by Michael Zuckerman
A Life of Adventure and Delight
Akhil Sharma is less interested in ideology in itself than in politics as a backdrop to emotional conflict.
by Marina N. Bolotnikova
An Asian Tour Reunion
Fifty years after they sang their way around the globe as undergraduates, they returned to Cambridge with full hearts and voices.
by Lydialyle Gibson
A Better Way to Amputate
Improved surgical techniques enhance prosthetic function.
by Erin O’Donnell
Social Club Ban?
A Harvard committee proposes eliminating unsanctioned student social organizations.
by Jonathan Shaw
The Portraitist
Elsa Dorfman, BI ’73, looks back on her photography.
by Sophia Nguyen
Carl Thorne-Thomsen
Brief life of a man of principle: 1946-1967
by Bonnie Docherty
“Practicing My Purpose”
The Grammy Award-winning songwriter Dan Wilson reclaims his catalog.
by Max Suechting
Bards of America
Historical plays for a nation “stuck in the middle”
by Lydialyle Gibson