The Dilemma of Choice
In a new book, All Things Shining, philosopher Sean Dorrance Kelly confronts modern nihilism with a guide for learning how to live a meaningful life.
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Lepore and Longfellow
The historian reexamines the poet.
3.22.11
What Books Are For
The Radcliffe Institute’s “Why Books?” conference touches on a timely theme.
11.3.10
Humanities Center Endowed by $10-Million Gift
Securing a hub for interdisciplinary discourse
10.4.10
Innovator David Edwards’s New Book on “Artscience” Labs
The Lab: Creativity and Culture sets forth a vision of multidisciplinary innovation.
7.27.10
Vincent Brown
The professor of African and African American studies uses multiple media to study slavery.
5.1.10
History Quantified
Applying “natural experiments” to the study of history
5.1.10
Gutenberg 2.0
Harvard’s libraries deal with disruptive change.
5.1.10
Who Cares About Chinese Culture?
A panel discussion with Peter Bol and Tian Xiaofei
4.20.10
Emma Dench
Meet a scholar enthralled by the Romans.
3.1.10
Li Shizhen
Brief life of a pioneering pharmacologist: 1518-1593
1.1.10
Ayn Rand
Brief life of an iconoclastic individualist
11.1.09
Professor Video
Visual, audio, and interactive media are transforming the college classroom
11.1.09
“The Measure of the Novel”
Ledecky Undergraduate Fellow Spencer Lenfield listens to Orhan Pamuk’s Norton Lectures.
10.23.09
John Mugane
Meet the director of Harvard’s African language program.