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Nicholas Stephanopoulos: Why Does Gerrymandering Matter So Much?
… Topics include recent state laws that limit voting, the voting-rights bills being debated in Congress, and the current state of “alignment” between voters’ wishes and government … where the votes are counted correctly. So I see the recent rise of election subversion as an issue, as striking at the …
Untangling the Brain
… Modern neuroscience rests on the assumption that our thoughts, feelings, perceptions, and … a conversation, or recall a moment in childhood, a pattern of activity in our neurons makes such feats possible. It's a … neuroscience, the next question is how that activity gives rise to thoughts, emotions, behaviors, and responses to the …
Issue: May-June 2009
Advancing Fields of Knowledge
… The Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ (FAS) intellectual prowess … like her field of astronomy, and vice versa. While machines are much better at computation, “Humans are much … Fellowship for her 2012 book, Ecoambiguity: Environmental Crises and East Asian Literatures. “We’re ready for a new …
Living History
… We create ourselves out of the stories we tell about our lives, stories that impose … I greeted the letter with some relief, with surprise — and at the same time with the eye of the historian …
Issue: May-June 2003
Cambridge 02138
… cover story about Tomiko Brown-Nagin’s re-assessment of the civil rights movement (“ Both Sides Now, ” … the several hundred participants in this remarkable enterprise whom I interviewed during my research nor any of the …
Issue: March-April 2022
Marcyliena Morgan: How Has Harvard Cultivated Hiphop?
… graffiti—have to do with Harvard? In this episode, Monrad professor of social sciences Marcyliena Morgan explains that hiphop began with the children of people who marched in the civil-rights … on Apple M usic or any other service, and I was really surprised because it was popular at the time that I was a …
Nicholas Burns: Why Does Good Diplomacy Matter?
… What role does diplomacy play in the modern world order , and what are the characteristics of a good diplomat? Which countries are the great powers … I think that’s where it will be. But we will have some surprises. Nigeria is going to double in population. Sub-Saharan …
Toward Cultural Citizenship
… One day in the early spring of 2013, Alexander Rehding asked the … who will tell us how they work in a complex ballet with machines and movable shelving structures.” Students will …
Issue: May-June 2014
Medicine in the Middle of Nowhere
… There was still some light in the sky that evening after … shuffling over to find a spot near the fire. The heat of the day had faded only slightly. Still, they were … of you is important. In the wilderness, away from X-ray machines and MRIs and blood-chemistry workups, the patient’s …
Issue: November-December 2017
Makeda Best: What Does Landscape Photography Say About Our Politics?
… PHOTOGRAPHY SAY ABOUT OUR POLITICS? Makeda Best, curator of photography at the Harvard Art Museums and a visiting professor of Art, Film, and Visual Studies, shares her …
Upstream Warrior
… In retrospect, it seems like a moment of epiphany, but on that Saturday in June 1963, it was simply a day of rough, stormy weather on the Thames River in New London, Connecticut. No one … the reaction they are going to get, and they are often surprised," says Peter Raymond, Ed.M. '83, who coached Harvard …
Cambridge 02138
… video message to alumni, clarifying Harvard’s position on the terrorist attacks in Israel: Is it really so difficult … are there no consequences for blaming the victims of savage brutality for their own suffering and supporting … If our President adds war to this mess, will chaos give rise to revolution? Is there a method to Democrat madness? …
Issue: January-February 2024
Jeannie Suk Gersen: Do Elite Colleges Discriminate Against Asian Americans?
… Decades of Supreme Court precedent says colleges can use affirmative action in admissions—but the court's new composition could change all that. In this … times the rate of everyone else. That group together comprises a third of each class. ALDCs are athletes, legacies, …
Cambridge 02138
… brain damage, how can Harvard, a university that values the intellect, continue to promote this threat to the intellectual and physical well-being of its students? As a leader in the academic world, Harvard … House, the new guy, hair still dark. Imagine my surprise to see his gray-haired picture on the cover more than …
Issue: January-February 2016
Reviewing "Reality"
… The scene, at least the one framed by the family-room proscenium of the television screen, remains indelible. President … allowed me to still feel that rush of anticipation and surprise when the curtain went up,” he wrote. He aimed to write …
Issue: March-April 2007