Commentary


Darker Days

The current disquiets compared to Harvard’s Vietnam-era traumas

by Primus VI

Cambridge 02138

Liberal arts, repatriation, sea level, palindromes

Seeing Further

Harvard’s investment in quantum science

by Lawrence Bacow

Endowment Enigmas

Risky entanglements in the political arena—and the potential for major new academic investments

Campus, Interrupted

The Undergraduate returns to student life, altered by the pandemic and a year spent apart. 

by Rebecca E. J. Cadenhead , Swathi Kella

Speaking Pheromone

How science is done, in the lab of E.O. Wilson

by Richard Rhodes

Has Harvard “Divested”?

Interpreting President Bacow’s recent statement on climate change

by John S. Rosenberg

Afghanistan Will Be What It Always Was

But will we be better? A veteran’s reflections

by Kit Parker

The Poco of Pocos

Brief life of a Harvard “character”

by Hanna Rose Shell