Features


The Gravity of Groups

Mina Cikara explores how people come into conflict, in politics and beyond

by Max J. Krupnick

The Philosopher of the Real World

Susanna Siegel moves beyond dialectical debates.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Anna Jacobson Schwartz

Brief life of a pioneering economist: 1915-2012

by Jennifer Burns

Harvard’s G.O.A.T.

Remembering Charlie Brickley at the Crimson’s football sesquicentennial

by Dick Friedman

You Are What (Your Microbes) Eat

Diet, cooking, and the human microbiome

by Veronique Greenwood

“Let Us Be Courageous Together”

Claudine Gay’s presidential installation

A “Scholar’s Scholar”

A profile of Harvard’s thirtieth president

by John S. Rosenberg

The Return of History

Ukrainian scholar Serhii Plokhy on the war in his home country

by Lydialyle Gibson

Getting Close, in Selma

Acting at a moment of conscience

by Drew Gilpin Faust

Arthur Augustus Johnson

Brief life of a Black baseball impresario: 1890-1951

by Kasey Uhlenhuth , Harry R. Lewis

Short and Sweet

Larry Bacow’s Harvard presidency, beyond the pandemic

by John S. Rosenberg