Commentary


Darker Days

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

by Primus VI

The World’s Costliest Health Care

Administrative costs, greed, overutilization—can these drivers of U.S. medical costs be curbed?

by David Cutler

Boats and Coats

Houseboating in Boston Harbor, Apthorp North, and clothing counts

by Primus VI

Yesterday’s News

Headlines from Harvard’s history

Character Count

Widener Library’s overlooked designer

by John S. Rosenberg

Cambridge 02138

Authoritarianism, labor law, climate change, and more

The “Messy Experiment”

From “women’s confinement” to “women’s liberation” at the Radcliffe Institute

by Susan Ware

Greetings from Elmwood

President Bacow on encountering—and coming to terms with—COVID-19

by Lawrence Bacow

What Counts

Faculty governance and long-range intellectual planning for Harvard

The End of Spontaneity

Lauren Fadiman ’21 on being away from college, where one is never alone

by Lauren Fadiman

A Harvard Senior’s Call to the Home Front

“We are the generation that is coming of age in the COVID-19 crisis,” writes Lauren Spohn ’20. “What can we build? What can we sacrifice? What risks can we take?”

by Lauren Spohn